Antarctic Guide Blog
Cruise to Antarctica for $1 with Quark Expeditions
WATERBURY, Vt., Nov. 4, 2011 — /PRNewswire/ — Monday, November 7, 2011, Quark Expeditions, the leader in polar adventure, will launch the company’s first-ever flash sale for a four day period featuring the classic Antarctic Explorer voyage. Passengers who purchase one of four available November 2011 departures at regular price will receive a companion rate […]
Scientists have discovered the first known remains of an Antarctic sauropod
A team of South American paleontologists announced one of the biggest Antarctic discoveries in years: the fossilized remains of a sauropod. The discovery comes in the form of a single broken vertebra, which is enough for paleontologists to say it came from a sauropod, but evidently not enough for them to say whether or not […]
Plan to create marine reserves around Antarctica
DELEGATES at an ocean conservation conference have agreed to a plan to create marine reserves in the waters around Antarctica. The Commission for the Conservation of Marine Living Resources meeting in Hobart today accepted a framework be instituted for protected areas in the Ross Sea and Southern Ocean. Industrial fishing would be prohibited in the […]
Pine Island Glacier
300-square-mile portion of the Pine Island Glacier is expected to break off in the next few months, creating a massive Antarctic iceberg. The glacier is contributing the sea-level rise. http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2011/1104/Huge-chunk-of-Antarctic-ice-sheet-set-to-break-free
Tom Crean the great Irish Antarctic Explorer remembered 100 years on
Irishman’s incomparable story remained in the dark due to his modesty and political necessity While the tragedy of Scott’s failure is central in the history of Polar exploration, the Kerry man’s extraordinary achievements during three expeditions to the Antarctic at the start of the last century lay dormant for almost 80 years until the publication […]
Hurley’s pics finally hung at palace
NEARLY a century after he hand-delivered them to Buckingham Palace, legendary Australian photographer Frank Hurley’s iconic Antarctic images have gone on display. His pictures from Ernest Shackleton’s epic Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition from 1914-1917 form half of the first photographic exhibition to be held at the Palace. Hurley’s shots were from a deluxe album he presented […]
Frozen Planet: Incredible pictures released of new BBC documentary
Images from Frozen Planet have been released, showcasing spectacular footage from Sir David Attenborough‘s latest series, which looks at the effects of global warming on the Arctic and Antarctic. http://www.metro.co.uk/tv/878924-frozen-planet-incredible-pictures-released-of-new-bbc-documentary#ixzz1bNmgGlLd
Antarctic ozone hole is as big as North America
Washington: The first significant ozone hole above the Antarctic is now as big as North America, scientists have claimed. Spanning about 25 million square kilometers, the ozone hole over the South Pole reached its maximum annual size on September 14, becoming the fifth largest on record, they said. The largest Antarctic ozone hole ever recorded occurred […]
Icelandic off-road company sets record South Pole crossing
Guinness recognized a new world record for the fastest overland journey to the South Pole this week. The expedition occurred in December 2010, when two modified Toyota Hilux trucks travelled 1,434 miles across the Antarctic High Plateau in 108 hours. http://www.autoblog.com/2011/10/15/icelandic-off-road-company-sets-record-south-pole-crossing/
Antarctic mission to look for life in sub-glacial lake
Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey will drill 3km through ice sheet to take samples from Lake Ellsworth. Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) will use a hot-water “drill” to cut through the ice cap to Lake Ellsworth, on the western Antarctic ice sheet. By sampling the contents of the lake, which is liquid because […]