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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]