A new map of the South Orkney Islands has been released by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) - the first UK published, ...
Australia's Antarctic territory represents the largest sliver of the ice continent. For decades, Australian scientists have headed to one of our three ...
What’s the only native insect of Antarctica have to do to survive? An Osaka Metropolitan University-led international ...
When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...
At a time when knowledge of the world was fragmented and based on travelers’ and merchants’ accounts, one man set out to ...
New Zealand has so far avoided the strain of avian influenza causing mass mortalities of wild birds and mammals around the ...
“Atmospheric rivers” are bringing rain to the frozen slopes of the West Antarctic ice sheet, hitting the ice shelves that ...
Lisa Werner, a music teacher at St. Bruno Parish School in Dousman, traveled last year to Antarctica thanks to a teaching ...
A remote island that is part of France's French Southern and Antarctic Lands in the Indian Ocean has seen half of its ...
GEOQUIZ: The rand is the official currency of which country? Answer: South Africa. A rand is divided into 100 cents. The largest coin is worth 50 rand, and banknotes are valued from 10 to 200 rand.