Antarctica
Sand Origin
Collected by a geologist in Antarctica in the 1980s. These grains are not included in AKIN. Today, geological material should not be removed from Antarctica as a souvenir.
Random Sand Fact
The world’s largest desert has almost no sand.
Antarctica is almost entirely covered in ice. Less than half a per cent of the continent’s surface is free from snow and ice. There are mountains, rock, gravel and, in some places, sand.
OUAW’s Antarctic sand comes from one of these small ice-free areas, collected by a geologist in the 1980s.
The grains remain in the collection but are not mixed with the world’s sands in AKIN. Perhaps one of them will become a GRAINS piece one day.
