Antarctic ice extent is a a record greatest ever extent: <a href="http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/S_timeseries.png">http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/S_timeseries.png</a> The ice there has been increasing since the mid 1980s: http://wattsupwiththat.com/reference-pages/sea-ice-page/