Photo Credit: Nate Biletnikoff Lake Vanda in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. Peter Rejcek, Antarctic Sun Editor: A science team planning to hunker down in Bull Pass in Antarctica’s central McMurdo Dry ...

THE otherworldly continent of Antarctica seems all the more fantastical when seen from a new perspective, as shown in these maps laying out its different features in detail. The maps were devised and ...

Antarctica has long looked like a blank white smear on world maps, but new ultra detailed surveys are turning that blankness into a rugged landscape of buried mountains, deep valleys and secret mega ...

A new generation of ice-penetrating maps has turned the blank white of Antarctica into a richly contoured world of mountains, valleys, rivers and lakes. For the first time, scientists can trace this ...

Scientists using satellite data have now created the most detailed maps ever produced of the vast snow-covered Antarctic continent. The maps reveal unprecedented views of surface features that provide ...

What comes to mind when you think of Antarctica? Probably snow and ice. But a group of international scientists are shaking up what we think we know about the continent after unveiling a new, very ...

Peter Rejcek, Antarctic Sun Editor: A science team planning to hunker down in Bull Pass in Antarctica’s central McMurdo Dry Valleys would today receive a fairly simplistic map that outlines proposed ...

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Where does life lurk under the ice of Antarctica? The answers keep surprising us. In January, for example, researchers found corals, sponges and even giant sea spiders some 750 feet under the waves — ...

One of Antarctica’s most vulnerable glaciers may be in more precarious shape than scientists thought. If the enormous Thwaites Glacier loses enough ice, its retreat could become “unstoppable.” That’s ...

This folder is part of a collection of Waldo L. Schmitt papers. Schmitt was a carcinologist. He participated in many field trips and expeditions to observe crustaceans in the USA and around the world.

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A huge iceberg the size of Las Vegas has broken off from an Antarctica ice shelf. Maps created with GPS equipment show ...