An automated methodology is applied to differenticate rock from snow, clouds and sea in Antarctica using Landsat 8 imagery. A new rock outcrop map and area estimation for the entire Antarctic continent is included here. Burton-Johnson, A., Black, M., Fretwell, P. T., and Kaluza-Gilbert, J.: An automated methodology for differentiating rock from snow, clouds and sea in Antarctica from Landsat 8 imagery: a new rock outcrop map and area estimation for the entire Antarctic continent, The Cryosphere, 10, 1665-1677, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1665-2016, 2016. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Downloaded: http://www.add.scar.org/ 4 September 2016