The Antarctic Plate is a tectonic plate containing the continent of Antarctica and

extending outward under the surrounding oceans. After breakup from Gondwana,
the Antarctic plate began moving the continent of Antarctica south to its present
isolated location causing the continent to develop a much colder climate. The
Antarctic Plate is bounded almost entirely by extensional mid-ocean ridge systems.
The adjoining plates are the Nazca Plate, the South American Plate, the African
Plate, the Indo-Australian Plate, the Pacific Plate, and, across a transform boundary,
the Scotia Plate.