The volcano, one of the only two active in Antarctica, was first discovered by a British Royal Navy officer in 1841.

It turns out that Mount Erebus spews a fortune in gold across Antarctica — $2.1 million worth of it per year, according to reports. You’d struggle to pan it out of the Antarctic snow ...

Professor Matthew Stott of the University of Canterbury is fascinated by the extremophiles he studies - microbes that live at ...

This story appears in the July 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. The scene: a tent on Mount Erebus, an active volcano on Ross Island, Antarctica. The tent is a four-cornered tepee ...

“Volcanic activity has been shown to affect Earth’s climate in a myriad of ways,” the authors write. “One such example is that eruptions proximate to surface ice will promote ice melting. In turn, the ...

And unlike the spectacular lava lakes of Antarctica’s most famous volcano, Mount Erebus, indications are the result won’t be pretty. Geologist Allie Coonin and several colleagues have ...

Mount Vinson is the highest mountain in Antarctica - it is 4,892 metres tall. Mount Erebus in Antarctica is the most southerly active volcano in the world. It began to form around 1.3 million ...

Mount Erebus is the ultimate proving ground The Bosch EX14 Extreme Environment Camera is an integral part of the permanent recording equipment at the edge of the Mount Erebus crat... Bosch EX36 Corner ...

Mount Erebus is the ultimate proving ground The Bosch EX14 Extreme Environment Camera is an integral part of the permanent recording equipment at the edge of the Mount Erebus crat... Bosch EX36 Corner ...

Cooper Murray with Jobe Stewart, commentator Chad Neylon, Jack Le Brocq, and Jarrod Hughes. At the squad’s season ...