Antarctic Guide Blog
Titus Oates commemorated
www.AntarcticGuide.com http://www.suffolkfreepress.co.uk/community/community-news/antarctic_hero_hailed_1_3416030 Antarctic hero hailed HIS final words “I am just going outside and may be some time” form one of the most famous sentences in modern history. Army officer Captain Lawrence Oates was a member of Scott’s Antarctic expedition in 1912, and the village of Gestingthorpe is rightly proud of him as Gestingthorpe Hall […]
Lake Vostok – no Elvis?
www.AntarcticGuide.com Lake Vostok’s ancient water could harbour alien life forms, Hitler by: By Peter Farquhar February 07, 2012 11:07AM IT’S been 20 million years since it saw the light of day. And it’s taken 20 years for Russian scientists to pierce the 3800-odd metres of ice sitting on top of it. Meet Lake Vostok, the […]
Lake Vostok finally breached!
www.AntarcticGuide.com http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/russians-drill-into-previously-untouched-lake-vostok-below-antarctica/2012/02/06/gIQAGziNuQ_story.html?tid=pm_national_pop Russians drill into previously untouched Lake Vostok below Antarctic glacier By Marc Kaufman, Tuesday, February 7, 5:38 AM Russian scientists have drilled into the vast, dark and never-before-touched Lake Vostok 2.2 miles below the surface of Antarctica, according to a source quoted Monday by Ria Novosti, a state-run Russian news agency. “Yesterday, our […]
Lake Vostok – more conjecture
www.AntarcticGuide.com Editorial – Sigh. While Sci-fi fans are dreaming of The Thing and X-Files and the world waits for word from the Russian team drilling into Lake Vostok. “They are missing” we hear. “No they are not” says the Daily Mail. But reading closer we learn that an Arctic expert “believes” all is well and […]
Where on earth are they?
www.AntarcticGuide.com Where on earth are they? Russian scientists searching for underground ‘alien’ lake still missing on SEVENTH day as Tuesday ‘date of no return’ looms By ROB COOPER and THOMAS DURANTE Last updated at 6:05 PM on 5th February 2012 The scientific community is holding its breath for a team of Russian scientists that has […]
28cm amphipod discovered!
http://www.asianscientist.com/topnews/giant-superprawn-amphipod-28-cm-long-new-zealand-kermadec-trench-niwa-2012/ ASIAN SCIENTIST NEWSROOM FEBRUARY 3, 2012 Scientists aboard the RV Kaharoa have discovered ‘supergiant’ prawns in New Zealand’s Kermadec Trench that are 28 centimeters long and 10 to 14 times larger than regular prawns. AsianScientist (Feb. 3, 2012) – Scientists aboard the RV Kaharoa on a recent expedition to one of the deepest places […]
Lake Vostok scientists lost contact
www.AntarcticGuide.com http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/02/russian-scientists-lost-in-frozen-land-lost/ Russian scientists seeking Lake Vostok lost in frozen ‘Land of the Lost’? A group of Russian scientists plumbing the frozen Antarctic in search of a lake buried in ice for tens of millions of years have failed to respond to increasingly anxious U.S. colleagues — and as the days creep by, the fate […]