The 2024 expedition brought flat Earthers and globe Earthers to Antarctica, where all participating flat Earthers acknowledged the midnight sun as real.
Key Facts
- Expedition year
- 2024
- Organizer
- Will Duffy, American Christian pastor
- Participants invited
- 48 online content creators
- Departure point
- Chile
- Phenomenon observed
- Midnight sun
- Preparation time
- 3 years
By the Numbers
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Cause → Event → Consequence
Flat Earth beliefs have persisted in online communities, prompting organizer Will Duffy to design an empirical test. He spent three years preparing an expedition that would bring flat Earthers and globe Earthers together to observe the midnight sun, a natural phenomenon that contradicts most flat Earth models.
Forty-eight content creators traveled from Chile to Union Glacier Camp in West Antarctica. Over several days, expedition members livestreamed the midnight sun. All flat Earthers present acknowledged that the midnight sun was a genuine phenomenon, constituting a direct empirical encounter with evidence against flat Earth claims.
Despite the on-site admissions by participating flat Earthers, the broader flat Earth community largely rejected the results, accusing all participants of faking the expedition and framing it as a conspiracy to promote the spherical Earth model. The event thus had limited persuasive impact on committed flat Earth adherents.