Goofs

When Carrie and Robert are interrogating the suspect, Carrie grabs scissors to threaten him. In the close-up for the hands, Carrie's left hand is completely visible with all her fingers. She had two of them removed previously.

When Carrie struggles to button up her cardigan, Robert Pryce assists her in buttoning it all the way up. Directly afterward, Carrie rushes into the hallway and we see that her cardigan is now unbuttoned to mid-torso.

Kate's pistol changes in the middle of scenes. Early on, she opens a file drawer and we see a small Glock pistol in a shoulder holster. She has a flashback and then retrieves a different, full size pistol in a belt holster from the drawer. Later in a outdoor battle, she pulls the large pistol from a shoulder holster. When she drops the pistol we see it is again the small Glock.

As the doctor makes the quote about Scotch, he puts the bottle against his shoulder with the label facing against it. When the camera then shows a front view of him, the label is now facing away from his shoulder.

At the end of the film we see the sun start to come over the horizon and flood the station. A few minutes later when Carrie walks outside it is still dark.

The pilot follows the two characters down the hole to the crashed plane. In a search and rescue operation, one person would stay above ground to make sure that everyone can get back for just such emergencies as the hole collapsing.

The UN has no law enforcement coverage of the Antarctic, and has no authority to commandeer aircraft or any other facilities. The activities of personnel in Antarctica are governed by the laws of their home nation.

In the Southern Hemisphere storms spin clockwise, not counter-clockwise as it appears on the computer screen with the storm satellite map at the base.

In the opening sequence, the date is shown to be 1957; however, the Soviet transport aircraft is an Antonov An-12, which first flew on December 16, 1957. It did not enter Soviet Air Force service until 1959. Also, a character stated that (to paraphrase), "They haven't flown these for 50 years", which is absurd, since the An-12 is still in service with many military forces and civilian airlines around the world.

Antarctic ice, specifically plateau ice, does not make drinks "boil" or effervesce. While ice has tiny bubbles trapped and compressed under pressure their release causes nothing more than a crackle and pop. This is more distinct in ice from lower depths due to greater compression, and is almost non-existent in ice near the surface.

For low altitude flight the cabin would not be pressurized. Although the bullets from the opening gunfight damage the plane's hull, this would not result in a catastrophic depressurization. When a round breaks the cockpit window, the result is not depressurization, but a shattering of the window and the wind caused by a speed of 100+ knots. Air and snow are moving into the cockpit, not out as would be the case under a sudden depressurization.

When Kate and the team went out searching for the lost plane, she's using a Garmin 60 series GPS. On the screen it shows the first page, which is the satellite signal page which also shows the longitude and latitude. By searching the coordinates that are displayed (50 deg 45'55.3N, 98 deg 22'61.2W) you find that they are in fact on Lake Manitoba, Canada; not the South Pole. (Lake Manitoba is a known film location.)

Temperature monitors in the Russian station display the temperature in degrees Fahrenheit, where a non-American station would use Celsius.

Carrie fired one shot to kill her partner, but two holes appeared on his shirt.

When Carrie is being chased for the first time, the spike on her pursuer's ice axe is wobbling and clearly made of rubber.

At the end of the film, Carrie's hair is exactly the same length as it was 6 months earlier, despite her having been at the base with only Delfy and Pryce, who seem unlikely to have the skills of a professional hairdresser.

When the Marshal is talking to McGuire the Union Flag on the wall is upside down. A common error in movies but you would think Kate being British would have noticed! For reference the loops for attaching the flag are on the left, the large band of white should be at the top not at the bottom.

In the opening shower scene, when Kate Beckinsale exits the shower, a cameraman's arm can be seen in the reflection.

Big storms as depicted in this movie do not happen at the South Pole. Conditions are typically fairly calm there. The big storms all happen hundreds of miles away towards the edge of the continent.

In the first scene depicting the South Pole Station there are mountains surrounding the base but there are no mountains within a few hundred miles from the South Pole Station.

The station leader Sam points to Haworth Mesa on the map as being in the Australian Antarctic Territory of east Antarctica. Haworth Mesa, where Weiss was found, is in the Trans-Antartic Mountains of west Antarctica approximately 1300 km south-east of McMurdo. Weiss' two companions then turn up at Vostok in east Antarctic, 1600 km away.

Kate Beckinsale's character never wears a face mask. If the winds were reaching 100 mph and the temperature was -65, her face would be frostbitten in a matter of 1 or 2 minutes.

During the finger amputation the doctor proceeds without using one iota of sterile technique, most notably no mask or gloves, let alone Betadine antiseptic which would have left the hand and forearm bright red.

The word doctoral is misspelled in Anton Weiss's thesis title as "doctorial."