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Over 100 icebergs drifting to N.Zealand: official
Auckland :: New Zealand | about 7 hours ago
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An Australian Antarctic Division glaciologist said the ice chunks, spotted by satellite photography, had passed the Auckland Islands and were heading towards the main South Island, about 450 kilometres (280 miles) northeast. Scientist Neal Young said...
Tags: New Zealand, Antarctica, Neal Young, Auckland, Southern Ocean, Sea ice, Icebergs, Iceberg, Physical oceanography, Glaciology, Environment
Project to study water at pole
Baton Rouge :: LA :: USA | about 7 hours ago
Credibility Water systems beneath Antarctica’s massive ice sheets are among the world’s last unexplored regions. But many of the mysteries of the world’s subglacial environments will be unlocked in the coming years thanks to a new research team planning to drill...
Tags: Brent Christner, Antarctica, ice sheets, Baton Rouge, Whillans Ice Stream, Glacier, West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Current sea level rise, Climate change, Glaciology, Extreme points of Earth, Environment
8 women set out to ski to South Pole
Wellington :: New Zealand | about 8 hours ago
Credibility New Zealand — Eight women set out Monday from their base camp on Antarctica to ski to the South Pole in a trek to mark the 60th anniversary of the Commonwealth grouping of 53 former British colonies. Skiing six to 10 hours a day, they expect to travel...
Tags: south pole, Commonwealth Women, women set, base camp, Antarctica, New Zealand, Wellington, Patriot Hills, Extreme points of Earth, Poles, Chilean Antarctica
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Posted by: hdstreamer |
Amundsen-Scott - permanent station of the US :: Antarctica | 1 day ago
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World's largest ice sheet melting faster than expected
Nuuk :: Greenland | 1 day ago
Credibility The world's largest ice sheet has started to melt along its coastal fringes, raising fears that global sea levels will rise faster than scientists expected. The East Antarctic ice sheet, which makes up three-quarters of the continent's 14,000 sq km, is...
Tags: West Antarctica, ice sheet, antarctic ice, East Antarctic, losing mass, ice loss, Greenland, Nuuk, Oceanography, Global warming, Greenland ice sheet, Antarctic ice sheet, Current sea level rise, Climate change, Glaciology, Ice sheets, Environment, West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Glaciers of Antarctica, Pleistocene, Interglacial, Antarctica, Eemian, Ice ages, Effects of global warming, Sea level
Travellers Guide to Antarctica
Auckland :: New Zealand | 2 days ago
Credibility To discover a part of the planet reduced to its raw elements. "The Antarctic is to the rest of the world as the Abode of the Gods was to the ancient Chaldees," wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard: "A precipitous and mammoth land lying far beyond the seas." That...
Tags: West Antarctica, London-Madrid-Buenos Aires-Ushuaia, Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, Antarctic Circle, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctic Logistics, International Antarctic Centre, Air New Zealand, South Georgia, South Pole, New Zealand, Auckland, Argentine Antarctica, Edwardian era, Antarctica, Ernest Shackleton, Poles, Heroic Era of Antarctic exploration, Extreme points of Earth
Simon Calder: The seven classes of Man, Antarctic style
Moscow :: Russia | 2 days ago
Credibility Imagine checking in for a 12-hour, 6,000-mile flight, yet not needing to show a passport because it's a domestic journey. No, this is not a trip across all 11 time zones of Russia: it is a flight chartered from Qantas by a firm in Sydney with the suburban-sounding...
Tags: Antarctica, window seat, Qantas, Sydney, Russia, Moscow, Acronyms, Premium economy, Airbus A380, Concorde, Association of Asia Pacific Airlines, Travel, Low-cost airlines
NZ woman attempts South Poll skiing first (NZPA)
Oslo :: Norway | 3 days ago
Credibility Twizel adventurer Kylie Wakelin, 36, says reality hit hard immediately on her arrival in Antarctica in a bid to become the first New Zealand woman to ski to the South Pole. The Commonwealth women's Antarctic expedition arrived at Patriot Hills, south...
Tags: Patriot Hills, Ms Wakelin, Commonwealth, Antarctica, Norway, Oslo
Russian ship freeing itself from ice in Antarctic
Moscow :: Russia | 3 days ago
Credibility A Russian shipping company says that its icebreaker carrying over 100 tourists, scientists and journalists on an Antarctic cruise has been successfully moving through ice and is just about 100 meters (yards) away from clear water. The Captain Khlebnikov...
Tags: cruise ship, Antarctica, Kapitan Khlebnikov, Russia, Moscow, Ships built in Finland, McMurdo Sound, Icebreaker, Environment, Antarctic Peninsula, Far East Shipping Company, Weddell, Krasin, Glaciology, Sea ice
Stranded tourists in Penguin territory
Posted by: prabirghose |
Amundsen-Scott - permanent station of the US :: Antarctica | 5 days ago
Credibility The 100 odd tourists who wanted to see the penguins of Antarctica in their original habitat and not as prisoners in some artificial ice filled chamber never expected to get stranded. Unfortunately, that is what has happened. The Russian ice breaker cruise...
Tags: tourists, penguins, Russian ice breaker cruise ship Kapitan Khlebnikov, Antarctica, Amundsen-Scott - permanent station of the US, Penguin, Antarctic, Flightless birds, Kapitan Khlebnikov, Icebreaker, Hospitality Recreation, Environment, travel
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