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The Coast Guard became part of the Air Force-led Joint Task Force Support Forces Antarctica Jan. 1 with the arrival of the Cutter Polar Sea at McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Home ported in Seattle, the Polar Sea arrived after a month-long voyage including stops in Honolulu and Sydney, Australia. ...

China is expected to launch the 22nd exploration to the South Pole in November, aiming primarily to collect meteorites on the Grove Mountain area. After scaling Dome A - the highest ice cap in Antarctica - late last year, Chinese scientists will focus on inland research in the Antarctic ar...

More than 145 lakes have been identified beneath the thick Antarctic ice sheet from ice-penetrating radar. Most of these lakes, captured between 3-4 kilometres of ice, are several kilometres long and are primarily located beneath the major ice divides. Now two new lakes have been found benea...

A strong magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurred at 11:34:52 (UTC) on Sunday, January 8, 2006, in Southern Greece, about 95 km NNW of Chania, Crete. The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 37.7 km. Location 36.250°N, 23.498°E

Scientists use meteors to investigate climate change and giant waves at the ‘edge of space’ New research radar based in Antarctica is giving scientists the chance to study the highest layer of...

New results shed light on how Antarctica became the icy, barren continent that we know today. British Antarctic Survey (BAS) scientists have discovered that 30-50 million years ago, South America and Antarctica split apart very rapidly. This formed the Drake Passage and resulted in a major globa...

Russian scientists have said they will resume drilling into Lake Vostok in the Antarctic, to within 100m of the waters that sit below its ice-cap. Lake Vostok's waters may hold many new species as it is an ecos...

South Pole Live Camera This photo is of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station taken every 15 minutes (if a relay satellite is available for transmission) from the roof of the Atmospheric Re...

Norwegian Troll Station in Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica. Latitude: 72°00.12'S Longitude: 002°32.03'E Webcam Expand (82kb, 560 x 420) Expand (62kb, 560 x 420)

Main Antarctic Facilities operated by National Antarctic Programs in the Antarctic Treaty Area (South of 60° latitude South) Google earth file (5kb, KMZ)

Astronomers Find Calmest, Driest, Coldest Place On Earth The search for the best observatory site in the world has lead to the discovery of what is thought to be the coldest, driest, calmest place on Earth. No human is thought to have ever been there but it is expected to yield images of the heavens thre...

To reach the bottom of the world, Zhu Zhenxi first had to run and climb his way to the top. Next weekend Sydney astronomers will wave goodbye to a robot-controlled observatory destined for one of the calmest and coldest places on earth: a desolate Antarctic plateau 4100 metres above sea level. Built...

Science writer and broadcaster Richard Hollingham meets Dr Robert Mulvaney at the British Antarctic Survey, who explains how collecting ice cores from all over Antarctica gives scientists a unique window into the Earth's past climate. Ice cores collected from thousands of metres beneath the An...

Tractors, snowmobiles and other vehicles that have seen active service in one of the most remote places on earth go on sale this week. They've been used to support British Antarctic Survey's science facilities at Halley and Rothera research stations. They are available to purchase through compet...

Deception Island is a volcanic caldera, which formed a natural harbour when the caldera collapsed. The harbour is called Port Foster. The Island is in the South Shetland Islands, on the Bransfield Rift where the rift is offset by a short ridge-ridge transform fault . 700000 years ago, volcan...

AMUNDSEN-SCOTT STATION, Antarctica - Anywhere on Earth this would be a big telescope, as high as a seven-story building, with a main mirror measuring 32 1/2 feet across. But here at the South Pole, it seems especially large, looming over a barren plain of ice that gets colder than anywhere else on th...

A flotilla of hundreds of icebergs that split off Antarctic ice shelves is drifting toward New Zealand and could pose a risk to ships in the south Pacific Ocean, officials said Tuesday Read more

The Japanese polar expedition team discovered four meteorites in the Sor Rondane Mountains of Antarctica on Tuesday in a race with U.S. scientists over the number of similar finds on the continent. It is the first discovery of meteorites in the area by Japanese scientists since January 2001. [url=...

My goals for the course are to introduce, raise awareness and start a dialogue about the amazingly diverse and versatile Antarctic microbial world - as this is, in essence, a land of the microbes. Microbial life in the sea ice and underlying waters of McMurdo Sound will be the subject of our studies th...

NASA's IceBite project will spend three austral summers in Antarctica testing ice-penetrating drills for a future mission to Mars. A team of seven scientists recently returned from the first field season, installing scientific probes in the ice and frozen ground, and scouting for sites where th...

Scientists Probe Antarctic Glaciers for Clues To Past and Future Sea Level Scientists from the U.S., U.K. and Australia have teamed up to explore two of the last uncharted regions of Earth, the Aurora and Wilkes Subglacial Basins, immense ice-buried lowlands in Antarctica with a combined area the...

A new German polar research station was inaugurated on Saturday, 21 February within the framework of International Polar Year. Neumayer Station III is located on the Ekstroem ice shelf in Dronning Maud Land in the Antarctic. Nine people ensure the year-round operation of the station, which serve...

You can listen to the underwater sound of the Antarctic Ocean via the Perennial Acoustic Observatory in the Antarctic Ocean (PALAOA). Underwater sound is recorded by means of two hydrophones by PALAOA, an autonomous, wind and solar powered observatory located on the Ekström ice shelf (Boebel et a...

The "Akademik Fyodorov" research vessel left the Saint Petersburg port in the small hours of November 6 and is now on its way to the Antarctic. Russia's 53rd Antarctic Expedition is made up of 102 expedition members and 70 sailors. The ship is to visit the port of Bremerhaven in German...

The British Antarctic Expedition 190709, otherwise known as the Nimrod Expedition, was the first of three expeditions to the Antarctic led by Ernest Shackleton. Its main target, among a range of geographical and scientific objectives, was to be first to the South Pole. This was not attained, but...

India launches scientific expedition to South Pole The head of India's National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Rasik Ravindra, will lead a team of eight scientists on the journey, departing next week from an Indian research base. The trip to the pole and back is expected to last around 40 d...

A team of explorers, mechanics and scientists has arrived in Antarctica ahead of an epic attempt to cross the frozen continent by land. The Moon Regan Transantarctic Expedition hopes to establish a new record for the crossing and will conduct a range of scientific experiments en route. They will co...

Title: The sky brightness and transparency in i-band at Dome A, AntarcticaAuthors: Hu Zou, Xu Zhou, Zhaoji Jiang, M.C.B. Ashley, Xiangqun Cui, Longlong Feng, Xuefei Gong, Jingyao Hu, C. A. Kulesa, J.S. Lawrence, Genrong Liu, D.M. Luong-Van, Jun Ma, A. M. Moore, Weijia Qin, Zhaohui Shang, J.W.V. S...

Antarctic lake mission targets life and climate signs A pioneering British expedition to sample a lake under the Antarctic ice hopes to find unknown forms of life and clues to future climate impacts. The mission will use hot water to melt its way through ice 3km thick to reach Lake Ellsworth, which ha...

China to install five Antarctic telescopes In the next five years, China will install five astronomical telescopes in the Antarctic areas to conduct research mainly on supernova cosmology, cosmic dark matter, the formation of extra solar planets and fixed stars. [url=http://english.peopled...

Supraglacial lakes Satellite images have revealed a sequence of lakes on top of the George VI ice shelf in Antarctica moving along the boundary of the ice shelf with Alexander Island. It was observed when LaBarbera and MacAyeal analysed satellite images of the George VI ice shelf in Antarctica take...

'New frontier' of Antarctic lake exploration When a Russian drilling team reached Antarctica's Lake Vostok last week, they were able to claim a world first. No one had previously penetrated one of the continent's sub-glacial lakes, prompting Valery Lukin from the Arctic and Antarctic Research...

Edward Bransfield (1785-1852) on 30 January 1820 sighted Trinity Peninsula, the northernmost point of the Antarctic mainland. Unknown to Bransfield, two days earlier, 28 January 1820, the Russian explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen may have caught sight of an icy shoreline now know...

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Antarctic McMurdo Station (Preview)	General news	2	6536	Nov 16 17:35 2007 by Blobrana
The Coast Guard became part of the Air Force-led Joint Task Force Support Forces Antarctica Jan. 1 with the arrival of the Cutter Polar Sea at McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Home ported in Seattle, the Polar Sea arrived after a month-long voyage including stops in Honolulu and Sydney, Australia. ...
Antarctic South Pole Expedition ( 1 2 3 ) (Preview)	General news	27	26585	Apr 11 16:01 2010 by Blobrana
China is expected to launch the 22nd exploration to the South Pole in November, aiming primarily to collect meteorites on the Grove Mountain area. After scaling Dome A - the highest ice cap in Antarctica - late last year, Chinese scientists will focus on inland research in the Antarctic ar...
Antarctic 90ºE and Sovetskaya (Preview)	General news	1	3113	Feb 4 12:16 2006 by Blobrana
More than 145 lakes have been identified beneath the thick Antarctic ice sheet from ice-penetrating radar. Most of these lakes, captured between 3-4 kilometres of ice, are several kilometres long and are primarily located beneath the major ice divides. Now two new lakes have been found benea...
Antarctic Earthquake Greek Quake ( 1 2 ) (Preview)	General news	11	7605	May 8 07:13 2011 by Blobrana
A strong magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurred at 11:34:52 (UTC) on Sunday, January 8, 2006, in Southern Greece, about 95 km NNW of Chania, Crete. The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 37.7 km. Location 36.250°N, 23.498°E
Antarctic Antarctica radar (Preview)	Astronomy News	2	3262	Sep 28 10:19 2009 by Blobrana
Scientists use meteors to investigate climate change and giant waves at the ‘edge of space’ New research radar based in Antarctica is giving scientists the chance to study the highest layer of...
Climate Antarctic Antarctica ( 1 2 3 4 5 … 15 ) (Preview)	General news	146	71313	Jun 29 10:53 2017 by Blobrana
New results shed light on how Antarctica became the icy, barren continent that we know today. British Antarctic Survey (BAS) scientists have discovered that 30-50 million years ago, South America and Antarctica split apart very rapidly. This formed the Drake Passage and resulted in a major globa...
Antarctic Lake Vostok ( 1 2 3 ) (Preview)	General news	26	24934	Mar 12 22:39 2013 by Blobrana
Russian scientists have said they will resume drilling into Lake Vostok in the Antarctic, to within 100m of the waters that sit below its ice-cap. Lake Vostok's waters may hold many new species as it is an ecos...
Antarctic The South Pole (Preview)	General news	4	9906	Jan 17 07:44 2013 by Blobrana
South Pole Live Camera This photo is of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station taken every 15 minutes (if a relay satellite is available for transmission) from the roof of the Atmospheric Re...
Antarctic Troll Station (Preview)	General news	0	2759	Nov 21 17:02 2007 by Blobrana
Norwegian Troll Station in Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica. Latitude: 72°00.12'S Longitude: 002°32.03'E Webcam Expand (82kb, 560 x 420) Expand (62kb, 560 x 420)
Antarctic Antarctic Facilities (Preview)	KMZ	1	3486	Jan 17 20:35 2010 by Blobrana
Main Antarctic Facilities operated by National Antarctic Programs in the Antarctic Treaty Area (South of 60° latitude South) Google earth file (5kb, KMZ)
Antarctica Antarctic Ridge A (Preview)	General news	5	4049	Oct 17 15:14 2009 by Blobrana
Astronomers Find Calmest, Driest, Coldest Place On Earth The search for the best observatory site in the world has lead to the discovery of what is thought to be the coldest, driest, calmest place on Earth. No human is thought to have ever been there but it is expected to yield images of the heavens thre...
Antarctica Observatory Antarctic Plateau Observatory ( 1 2 ) (Preview)	Astronomy News	13	33026	Jul 15 10:14 2010 by Blobrana
To reach the bottom of the world, Zhu Zhenxi first had to run and climb his way to the top. Next weekend Sydney astronomers will wave goodbye to a robot-controlled observatory destined for one of the calmest and coldest places on earth: a desolate Antarctic plateau 4100 metres above sea level. Built...
Ice Antarctic Antarctic ice cores ( 1 2 ) (Preview)	Audio Visual	10	13865	Dec 19 18:58 2016 by Blobrana
Science writer and broadcaster Richard Hollingham meets Dr Robert Mulvaney at the British Antarctic Survey, who explains how collecting ice cores from all over Antarctica gives scientists a unique window into the Earth's past climate. Ice cores collected from thousands of metres beneath the An...
Antarctic British Antarctic Survey (Preview)	Trash	5	3603	Oct 5 21:08 2012 by Blobrana
Tractors, snowmobiles and other vehicles that have seen active service in one of the most remote places on earth go on sale this week. They've been used to support British Antarctic Survey's science facilities at Halley and Rothera research stations. They are available to purchase through compet...
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Deception Island is a volcanic caldera, which formed a natural harbour when the caldera collapsed. The harbour is called Port Foster. The Island is in the South Shetland Islands, on the Bransfield Rift where the rift is offset by a short ridge-ridge transform fault . 700000 years ago, volcan...
Observatory Antarctic South Pole Telescope (Preview)	Astronomy News	7	6289	Feb 15 18:31 2014 by Blobrana
AMUNDSEN-SCOTT STATION, Antarctica - Anywhere on Earth this would be a big telescope, as high as a seven-story building, with a main mirror measuring 32 1/2 feet across. But here at the South Pole, it seems especially large, looming over a barren plain of ice that gets colder than anywhere else on th...
Antarctic Iceberg ( 1 2 3 ) (Preview)	Off Topic	26	44008	Apr 25 13:39 2017 by Blobrana
A flotilla of hundreds of icebergs that split off Antarctic ice shelves is drifting toward New Zealand and could pose a risk to ships in the south Pacific Ocean, officials said Tuesday Read more
Antarctic Japanese polar expedition (Preview)	Meteorite News	2	3256	Jan 27 10:08 2010 by Blobrana
The Japanese polar expedition team discovered four meteorites in the Sor Rondane Mountains of Antarctica on Tuesday in a race with U.S. scientists over the number of similar finds on the continent. It is the first discovery of meteorites in the area by Japanese scientists since January 2001. [url=...
Antarctic Antarctic Expedition Blog (Preview)	General news	0	2778	Jan 12 02:03 2010 by Blobrana
My goals for the course are to introduce, raise awareness and start a dialogue about the amazingly diverse and versatile Antarctic microbial world - as this is, in essence, a land of the microbes. Microbial life in the sea ice and underlying waters of McMurdo Sound will be the subject of our studies th...
Antarctic IceBite project (Preview)	General news	1	2951	Nov 15 21:08 2010 by Blobrana
NASA's IceBite project will spend three austral summers in Antarctica testing ice-penetrating drills for a future mission to Mars. A team of seven scientists recently returned from the first field season, installing scientific probes in the ice and frozen ground, and scouting for sites where th...
Antarctic Antarctic Glaciers (Preview)	General news	3	8058	Jul 10 21:43 2017 by Blobrana
Scientists Probe Antarctic Glaciers for Clues To Past and Future Sea Level Scientists from the U.S., U.K. and Australia have teamed up to explore two of the last uncharted regions of Earth, the Aurora and Wilkes Subglacial Basins, immense ice-buried lowlands in Antarctica with a combined area the...
Antarctic Neumayer Station III (Preview)	General news	0	2877	Feb 23 22:23 2009 by Blobrana
A new German polar research station was inaugurated on Saturday, 21 February within the framework of International Polar Year. Neumayer Station III is located on the Ekstroem ice shelf in Dronning Maud Land in the Antarctic. Nine people ensure the year-round operation of the station, which serve...
Antarctic PALAOA (Preview)	Audio Visual	0	3284	Jan 25 15:18 2010 by Blobrana
You can listen to the underwater sound of the Antarctic Ocean via the Perennial Acoustic Observatory in the Antarctic Ocean (PALAOA). Underwater sound is recorded by means of two hydrophones by PALAOA, an autonomous, wind and solar powered observatory located on the Ekström ice shelf (Boebel et a...
Antarctic 53rd Antarctic Expedition (Preview)	General news	0	2591	Nov 8 17:14 2007 by Blobrana
The "Akademik Fyodorov" research vessel left the Saint Petersburg port in the small hours of November 6 and is now on its way to the Antarctic. Russia's 53rd Antarctic Expedition is made up of 102 expedition members and 70 sailors. The ship is to visit the port of Bremerhaven in German...
Antarctic Nimrod Expedition (1907-09) (Preview)	Meteorite News	3	3503	Jan 4 07:36 2013 by Blobrana
The British Antarctic Expedition 190709, otherwise known as the Nimrod Expedition, was the first of three expeditions to the Antarctic led by Ernest Shackleton. Its main target, among a range of geographical and scientific objectives, was to be first to the South Pole. This was not attained, but...
Antarctic Indian Antarctic Expedition (Preview)	General news	0	2445	Nov 2 09:35 2010 by Blobrana
India launches scientific expedition to South Pole The head of India's National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Rasik Ravindra, will lead a team of eight scientists on the journey, departing next week from an Indian research base. The trip to the pole and back is expected to last around 40 d...
Antarctic Moon Regan Transantarctic Expedition (Preview)	General news	1	3699	Dec 10 09:02 2010 by Blobrana
A team of explorers, mechanics and scientists has arrived in Antarctica ahead of an epic attempt to cross the frozen continent by land. The Moon Regan Transantarctic Expedition hopes to establish a new record for the crossing and will conduct a range of scientific experiments en route. They will co...
Antarctic Dome A (Preview)	General news	2	5948	Dec 14 19:01 2016 by Blobrana
Title: The sky brightness and transparency in i-band at Dome A, AntarcticaAuthors: Hu Zou, Xu Zhou, Zhaoji Jiang, M.C.B. Ashley, Xiangqun Cui, Longlong Feng, Xuefei Gong, Jingyao Hu, C. A. Kulesa, J.S. Lawrence, Genrong Liu, D.M. Luong-Van, Jun Ma, A. M. Moore, Weijia Qin, Zhaohui Shang, J.W.V. S...
Antarctic Lake Lake Ellsworth ( 1 2 ) (Preview)	General news	15	7201	Dec 28 08:26 2012 by Blobrana
Antarctic lake mission targets life and climate signs A pioneering British expedition to sample a lake under the Antarctic ice hopes to find unknown forms of life and clues to future climate impacts. The mission will use hot water to melt its way through ice 3km thick to reach Lake Ellsworth, which ha...
Antarctic Chinese Antarctic telescopes (Preview)	Observatories	0	2443	Nov 25 20:12 2011 by Blobrana
China to install five Antarctic telescopes In the next five years, China will install five astronomical telescopes in the Antarctic areas to conduct research mainly on supernova cosmology, cosmic dark matter, the formation of extra solar planets and fixed stars. [url=http://english.peopled...
Antarctic George VI Ice Shelf (Preview)	Earth	0	3498	Jan 14 14:19 2012 by Blobrana
Supraglacial lakes Satellite images have revealed a sequence of lakes on top of the George VI ice shelf in Antarctica moving along the boundary of the ice shelf with Alexander Island. It was observed when LaBarbera and MacAyeal analysed satellite images of the George VI ice shelf in Antarctica take...
Antarctic Antarctic lakes (Preview)	Earth	1	7373	Jun 20 17:03 2017 by Blobrana
'New frontier' of Antarctic lake exploration When a Russian drilling team reached Antarctica's Lake Vostok last week, they were able to claim a world first. No one had previously penetrated one of the continent's sub-glacial lakes, prompting Valery Lukin from the Arctic and Antarctic Research...
Antarctic Trinity Peninsula (Preview)	Off Topic	0	2423	Jan 30 07:45 2013 by Blobrana
Edward Bransfield (1785-1852) on 30 January 1820 sighted Trinity Peninsula, the northernmost point of the Antarctic mainland. Unknown to Bransfield, two days earlier, 28 January 1820, the Russian explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen may have caught sight of an icy shoreline now know...