When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...

A new map of the South Orkney Islands has been released by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) - the first UK published, ...

Sue Halliwell marks the 150th anniversary of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s birth by tracing his ill-fated British ...

According to his coördinates, he was on the Titan Dome, an ice formation near the South Pole that rises ... arm of the Atlantic Ocean, and headed for Antarctica. As Alfred Lansing detailed ...

Andrew Babbin tries to pack light for work trips. Along with the travel essentials, though, he also brings a roll each of ...

Chrissie: Well, Antarctica is way down in the middle of the Southern Ocean, so we’ll need a map that’s looking right down on it. Freya: Ah, that’s better, it looks loads bigger than the UK!

What is a continent? We think of it as a large body of land surrounded by the sea, aka, ocean. There are a few continent sized countries. Australia is the only continent that is also one country.

Antarctica's first sighting on January 28, 1820, by Bellingshausen and Lazarev marked the beginning of unparalleled scientific inquiries and accentuated the continent’s importance in regards to global ...

The world's largest invertebrate remained hidden from humanity until a tantalising glimpse 100 years ago. But it would be ...

Fire maps show that it burned to the edge of a stand of Huon ... A 1997 paper by the Institute of Antarctic and Southern ...

Arctic daily sea ice extent continued to hover near record daily lows in January, with the ice edge well northward of its long-term average position in most areas. In contrast to the cold conditions ...