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South of Everything: Architecture and Territorial Presence in Antarctica

Antarctica has no government, no permanent population, and no economy. It also, since 1959, has had no legally recognized owner as the Antarctic Treaty freezes every territorial cl...

Feature: Arctic or Antarctic?

Antarctica once had a rainforest just 900 km from the South Pole

Forces deep inside Earth helped Antarctica freeze before the Arctic

Scientists may have solved the mystery of why Antarctica froze millions of years before the Arctic. Slow-moving waves deep inside Earth gradually lifted East Antarctica, building m...

Scientists Solve the Mystery of Why Antarctica Froze Before the Arctic

Antarctica’s first ice sheet may have begun with a geological head start hidden deep beneath the continent. Millions of years before thick ice spread across the Northern Hemisphere...

What is the only continent that does not have a continental divide?

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Earth’s Coldest Temperature in 14 Years Recorded at Antarctica’s Concordia Station

Learn how people and instruments at one remote station endure the conditions behind a negative 119.4 degrees Fahrenheit (negative 84.1 degrees Celsius) reading.

Antarctica gained 695 billion tons in 2021-23 as tropical warmth drove heavy snowfall

Between 2021 and 2023, Antarctica experienced a notable gain in ice mass, primarily driven by exceptional snowfall in East Antarctica. This unusual occurrence, influenced by warmer...

The only ATM in Antarctica has a second ATM for spare parts

The world's southernmost ATM is at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, at 77°51′ south. It is the only cash machine on the continent. Atlas Obscura says the machine works the same wa...

Resin Lenin presides over Antarctica's Pole of Inaccessibility

In December 1958, a Soviet expedition reached Antarctica's Pole of Inaccessibility, the point on the continent f...

The place that never freezes: the Arctic habitat where global heating threatens more ice, not less

The race to study the North Water between Canada and Greenland before it changes has led to a bold plan for an Inuit-run protected areaElectric-blue meltwater sprays up under Terry...

Antarctica Could Get its First Subsea Data Cable

Chile has achieved a significant milestone in a project likely to see Antarctica get connected to the global fiber-optic network. Last week, a feasibi...

British swam Antarctica's freezing sea and helped protect 1.55 million square kilometres

Atlas adds more fly-in Antarctica sailings

Atlas Ocean Voyages is expanding its Fly the Drake Expeditions, giving travellers more time ashore and…

Antarctic ice sheet sees temporary mass gain: study

A new international study shows that Antarctica's ice sheet gained 695 billion metric tonnes of mass between 2021 and 2023, slowing down its long-term ice loss against the backdrop...

Satellite spots a 'hummingbird' in Antarctica | Space photo of the day for July 23, 2026

A hummingbird shape in satellite data from NISAR is actually a mountaintop spotted in Antarctica.

Discover Your Perfect Expedition To White Continent

Planning a journey to the White Continent requires evaluating ship sizes, seasonal timing, transit options, and onboard styles. Selecting the ideal voyage ensures an extraordinary,...

Deepest Southern Ocean layer shrinking faster, study warns

The deepest layer of the Southern Ocean is shrinking faster than scientists realised, with the rate of change accelerating over the past decade, new research reveals, reported Xinh...

Polar Primer: Arctic and Antarctic Governance

By Jake Brantley As great power competition expands into new domains and climate change alters global geography, the Arctic and Antarctica have become central pieces of the nationa...

Antarctica gained a record 695 billion tons of ice. Scientists found the surprising reason

East Antarctica gained an astonishing 695 billion tons of ice between 2021 and 2023, temporarily slowing Antarctica’s long-term decline. Researchers found that warming thousands of...

Freezing Antarctic blast to plunge parts of the country below zero

The Antarctic blast will last until Wednesday – with many parts of NZ falling below zero overnight.

Antarctica Gained a Record 695 Billion Tons of Ice in Just Two Years

A tropical warming event helped drive record snowfall and a temporary 695-billion-ton ice gain in East Antarctica without reversing long-term Antarctic ice loss. Between 2021 and 2...

He wasn’t cut out for space travel. He explored Antarctica instead.

Meet Katsutada Kaminuma, whose desire to explore the untrodden led him to become perhaps Japan's foremost expert on Antarctica.

New Study: Antarctic Ice Melt Has Contributed Less Than 1 Centimeter To Sea Level Rise In The Last 30 Years

A new study reports Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) glacier melt has added a grand total of just 0.74 cm to sea levels from 1992-2020. The authors apparently consider this amount − +0.26...