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Penguins at SkiDubai, Mall of the Emirates

www.AntarcticGuide.com http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/environment/penguins-set-to-make-a-big-splash-at-indoor-ski-facility-1.974061 Penguins set to make a big splash at indoor ski facility 20 birds born and bred in captivity arrive in dubai from texas Dubai: Newly arrived penguins appear to be quickly adapting to their sub-zero Celsius home at SkiDubai replete with an ice-cold swimming pool and private living quarters designed to replicate Antarctic […]

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Photo captures growing Antarctic ice rift

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46227647/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.Ty9ZkZj2xLI www.AntarcticGuide.com A stunning photo captures growing Antarctic ice rift Shot of beginning stages of birth at calving Pine Island Glacier iceberg taken from space This growing rift is in the ice shelf at the floating end of the Pine Island Glacier, a slow-moving river of ice in West Antarctica that moves ice from the […]

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Russian Museum goes to Antarctica

www.AntarcticGuide.com http://enter-russia.com/post/16916750417/russian-museum-goes-antarctica Russian Museum goes to Antarctica Antarctica is to get its first museum thanks to Russia. Authorities have decided to open up a branch of the Russian Museum at the Novolazarevskaya base on the Antarctic continent. It’ll be the closest museum to the South Pole, and serves a population of 70 in the summer […]

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Global warming could enable undersea Arctic telecom route

www.AntarcticGuide.com http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/012312-ptc-conference-255180.html?hpg1=bn Global warming could enable undersea Arctic telecom route Cloud computing and disaster recovery drive expansion of undersea optical telecommunications networks By Jay Gillette, Network World HONOLULU — “Harnessing Disruption: Global, Mobile, Social, Local,” was the theme at the 34rd Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) conference last week in Honolulu. As international telecommunications demand continues […]

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Hundreds of meteorites uncovered in Antarctica

www.AntarcticGuide.com Hundreds of meteorites uncovered in Antarctica By Leonard David A gang of heavily insulated scientists has wrapped up its Antarctic expedition, with its members thawing out from the experience, but pleased to have bagged more than 300 space rocks. They are participants in the Antarctic Search for Meteorites program, or ANSMET for short. Since […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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