After an almost 2 week battle to stay afloat in icy Antarctic waters, the Russian fishing vessel, Sparta, has completed a round of temporary repairs with aid from a S. Korean icebreaker and set sail back in the open ocean. Rescue coordinator, Tracy Brickles, told AFP that repairs on the stricken Sparta are complete, and […]

www.AntarcticGuide.com UNSUSPECTING visitors waiting to see Edinburgh Zoo’s new giant pandas have become the victims of a jealous penguin rage. The BBC reports several rockhopper penguins, whose enclosure neighbours the pandas’ enclosure, could be suffering from a case of “monochrome jealousy” and are taking their envy out on innocent bystanders. A 41-year-old zoo-goer, who didn’t […]

www.AntarcticGuide.com Ship reaches stuck Russian fishing vessel (AP) WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A South Korean polar research ship on Monday reached a leaking Russian fishing vessel that has been stuck in the frigid waters off Antarctica for the past 10 days, New Zealand officials said. The Sparta, with 32 crew on board, hit underwater ice […]

www.AntarcticGuide.com Australian Geographic Society has joined the Mawsons Hut Foundation to raise money for the construction of a replica Mawson’s hut. The original is, of course, still at Commonwealth Bay in east Antarctica – protected and preserved by the MHF’s multiple conservation expeditions. They believe that the replica hut – which will sit opposite Mawson […]

www.AntarcticGuide.com Southern exposure Review by Ranulph Fiennes Lost images give fresh insight into Captain Scott’s final journey and serve as witnesses for the defence of his reputation The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott, by Dr David M Wilson, Little, Brown, RRP£30, 192 pages http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/07448d72-2741-11e1-864f-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=rss#axzz1hRzDqjtz Antarctic Guide info@antarcticguide.com www.AntarcticGuide.com Twitter: AntarcticGuide

www.AntarcticGuide.com Priest has rite stuff for parish with divine view Leesha Mckenny December 24, 2011 MONSIGNOR Stephen Rossetti will conduct midnight Mass tonight with his sunglasses on. The glasses come with the territory. Monsignor Rossetti is the lone Catholic priest in Antarctica – surely one of the world’s largest parishes. ”Antarctica is unique. It’s like […]

Exploring the Dry Valleys, Then and Now By ALIA KHAN Alia Khan, a graduate student at the University of Colorado, Boulder, writes from the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica, where she is studying ephemeral glacier-fed streams. It’s interesting to think how different our experiences in the Dry Valleys are from those of the first Antarctic […]

How nuclear icebreakers work – and the reversible ships that will replace them The Arctic North end of Russia is believed to hold as much as a quarter of all the world’s oil deposits – an utterly monstrous economic prize, hidden in one of the toughest and least hospitable environments on the planet. Getting to […]

To see how the papers were reporting the diplomatic war between the UK and Chile in 1948 have a look at http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=4oJvMfeQlr8C&dat=19480218&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Antarctic Guide info@antarcticguide.com www.AntarcticGuide.com Twitter: AntarcticGuide

Giant Dinosaur Fossil Found in Antarctica A vertebrae found on James Ross Island could belong to the biggest animal to ever roam Antarctica. Argentinian paleontologists have discovered a vertebrae fossil belonging to massive titanosaur – in frickin’ Antarctica. The discovery is believed to be the largest ever dinosaur found on the planet’s most remote continent, […]