Savage Land

Location of the Savage Land in Antarctica.
Race(s)	Aerians Ape-Men Awakilius Bhadwuans Cat People Cliff Forest People Disians Durammi Ethereals Fall People Golden People Gondorans Gorankians Gwundas Hauk'ka Hill-Forest People Jeriens Kantos Karems Klantorr Lemurans Lizard Men Locot Man-Apes Neo-Men N'Galans Nhu’Ghari Nowek Palandorians Pterons Reptile Men Rock Tribe Saurians Snowmen Sun-People Swamp Men Sylandans Tandar-Kaans Tokchis Tordon-Naans Tree People Tribe of Fire Tubanti Uruburians Waidians Water People Zebra People
Notable characters	Simon Berry Ka-Zar Shanna the She-Devil Zabu Sauron Garokk Zaladane Savage Land Mutates Devil Dinosaur Moon-Boy
First appearance	X-Men #10 (March 1965)
Publisher	Marvel Comics

The Savage Land is a hidden fictional prehistoric land appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. It is a tropical preserve hidden in Antarctica. Throughout time, it has served as a basis for many story arcs in Uncanny X-Men as well as in related books.

The Savage Land first appeared in X-Men #10 (March 1965) and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

The Savage Land was created by the alien Nuwali at the behest of the other-dimensional, nigh-omnipotent aliens known as the Beyonders (not to be confused with the Beyonder of the Secret Wars). The Beyonders sought to observe the process of evolution under relatively controlled conditions and had the Nuwali set up a number of game preserves on several planets. One of these planets was Earth during the Triassic period where the Nuwali chose a valley in Antarctica surrounded by active volcanoes, where they installed a number of advanced technological devices in order to maintain a tropical climate. The aliens then stocked the area with all manner of Earth life over the following several millennia. They also brought over the Man-Apes, earlier hominid ancestors of Homo sapiens.

The Beyonders eventually grew bored with the experiment, and the Nuwali stopped maintaining the Savage Land during the Late (the Ice Age era). However, the self-maintaining technology that allowed the pocket of tropical climate was left running, and many species which became extinct in other areas of the Earth continued to thrive within the Savage Land.

Later on, a group of human survivors from Atlantis sailed to Antarctica before the "Great Cataclysm" which sank Atlantis into the ocean. There, they discovered a cavern where they found an immense climate-controlling device and harnessed the technology used to keep the Savage Land's volcanoes working. They named their location "Pangea", which is Atlantean for "paradise".