"On the Antarctic Peninsula, the area of ice-free 'greening' has jumped from 86 hectares to nearly 1200 over four decades - the size of a large sheep and beef farm, now exposed land rather than ice."
#CraigMcCulloch, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/582723/andrew-bayly-and-the-fight-for-antarctica
A shame they didn't say over what period of time. But a 2024 Nature article says;
"The area of likely vegetation cover increased from 0.863 km2 in 1986 to 11.947 km2 in 2021."
Sustained greening of the Antarctic Peninsula observed from satellites