THE otherworldly continent of Antarctica seems all the more fantastical when seen from a new perspective, as shown in these maps laying out its different features in detail. The maps were devised and ...

Photo Credit: Nate Biletnikoff Lake Vanda in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. Peter Rejcek, Antarctic Sun Editor: A science team planning to hunker down in Bull Pass in Antarctica’s central McMurdo Dry ...

About 4,000 scientists travel around the vast, ice-covered continent of Antarctica each year to look at topics ranging from climate change to the search for dark matter, and prior to 2007, they were ...

Peter Rejcek, Antarctic Sun Editor: A science team planning to hunker down in Bull Pass in Antarctica’s central McMurdo Dry Valleys would today receive a fairly simplistic map that outlines proposed ...

Scientists using satellite data have now created the most detailed maps ever produced of the vast snow-covered Antarctic continent. The maps reveal unprecedented views of surface features that provide ...

This folder is part of a collection of Waldo L. Schmitt papers. Schmitt was a carcinologist. He participated in many field trips and expeditions to observe crustaceans in the USA and around the world.

Chances are you make it through most days without sparing a thought for Antarctica. At just over 5.4 million square miles, it’s a massive chunk of land that is nearly twice the size of Australia and ...

For the first time, scientists have made a 3-D map of sea ice in eastern Antarctica. The map will help reveal the amount of ice in the region, which is important for understanding how climate change ...

If even a fraction of Antarctica’s ice melts, the resultant sea level rise will reshape coastlines around the world. A new study gets us one step closer to predicting if and when that will happen, by ...

Top mapmakers are busily updating their charts after a massive iceberg sheared off Antarctica, fundamentally changing the landscape of the peninsula — likely forever. The 1 trillion ton iceberg that ...

The most highly detailed maps ever released of the Earth's polar regions shows a mysterious world of hidden mountains, canyons and ocean topography underneath the frozen regions' ice caps. The maps in ...

Antarctic scientists have combined measurements provided by an underwater robot with existing satellite data to show that Antarctic sea ice may be thicker than previously thought. Their ...