King penguins live in places like the South Sandwich Islands, South Georgia Island and the Crozet Islands in breeding colonies on the small patches of land in the south Atlantic and Indian Oceans, ...

The Antarctic ice sheet covers about 98% of the continent's land mass, and its ice is estimated to be about 1.2 miles thick. That means that if you ever visited Antarctica and took a step onto it, you ...

Through satellite gravimetry analysis of Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) mass changes from 2002 to 2023, striking mass change rates ...

Researchers have proposed many origins for a gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, but the latest evidence ...

One of the world's most vast and mysterious land masses, Antarctica is a remote and fragile environment you can generally ...

Experts have revealed Antarctica is “more vulnerable” than previously feared, as a new map reveals what lays under the ice. The estimates, created by Bedmap3, have also re-evaluated the ...

The frigid ice-mass on the bottom of ... “What they say about people in Antarctica is that you shake the Earth and all the weird people fall out and land there,” Byron Adams, a Brigham Young ...

but proved the non-existence of any antarctic land mass extending north of the antarctic circle. The next South Pole expedition of any importance was carried out under the patronage of Alexander II.

The Antarctic Ice Sheet is losing mass due to warmer air and water temperatures. In many areas where Antarctic land ice meets the ocean, large floating ice shelves form, areas particularly vulnerable ...