Antarctica Losing Ice, Contrary to Expectations
Joining the growing list of places on this planet that are melting, Antarctica is losing some 36 cubic miles of ice every year, scientists said today. A floating iceberg off the Antarctic Peninsula. Photo courtesy CU-Boulder National Snow and Ice ... [... more]
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Rare Cloud Formation Seen in Antarctica
A rare and spectacular cloud formation has been seen at the end of the polar night at Australia's Mawson station in Antarctica. A rare and spectacular cloud formation has been seen at the end of the polar night at Australia's Mawson station in ... [... more]
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Global Warming Signs Stronger in Antarctica
Signs of global warming are three times more apparent in Antarctica than across the rest of the planet, a new study shows. The launch of a weather balloon at the British Antarctic Survey Halley Research Station. Credit: British Antarctic Survey, ... [... more]
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New City-sized Iceberg Created Near Antarctica
A city-sized iceberg has broken off an island near Antarctica. The iceberg is about 8 miles wide and 15 miles long. It broke free of the Fimbul Ice Shelf, a large glacial ice sheet along the northwestern section of Queen Maud Land, in the eastern ... [... more]
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Vast Plumbing Network Discovered Beneath Antarctica
A network of channels beneath Antarctica's ice could allow the movement of water, and life, from one underground lake to another. An intricate network of channels beneath Antarctica's ice sheets could allow water, and possibly life, to shuttle ... [... more]
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New Large Iceberg Breaks off Antarctica
A new iceberg about twice the size of Dallas broke off an Antarctic ice shelf Jan. 31, scientists said Friday. A new iceberg about twice the size of Dallas broke off an Antarctic ice shelf, scientists said Friday. The event is the latest in a ... [... more]
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Huge Iceberg Breaks Apart in Antarctica
In an ongoing saga of destruction, an iceberg about the size of the Hawaiian island of Maui has split into three pieces in the frigid Antarctic, scientists said Friday. The icebergs B-15M, B-15P and B-15N on Oct. 31, after B-15A broke apart. ... [... more]
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Terra Antarctica: Looking into the Emptiest Continent
 A medley of artistic, cartographic, and scientific images intertwine: Terra Antarctica: Looking Into the Emptiest Continent is the true-life story of award-finalist author William L. Fox's journey to explore the Antarctic, the "largest and most [... more]
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Antarctica: The Global Warning
SOS for Amazing Antarctica: I have visited Antarctica and climbed its ice in some of the very places photographed by Copeland. His amazing images capturing the majestic, awe-inspiring beauty of this magnificant continent can be beaten only by seeing it [... more]
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Antarctica: A Guide to the Wildlife, 4th (Bradt Guides)
Great, portable guide: I bought this book in preparation for a trip 'South' in December 1999/January 2000 and it was an extremely useful guide to wildlife in general but especially good for penguin information. The drawings by an ancestor of Robert F. [... more]
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Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica
Amazon.com Review: When explorers such as Ernest Shackleton, Roald Amundsen, and Robert Falcon Scott all set off to Antarctica in the early years of the 20th century, the polar regions were among the last truly unexplored areas of the world--and arguably [... more]
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Ushuaia to Antarctica - Drake Passage Map: Polar Voyage ...
Cruise Ship Map: If you are one of the many tourists who visit the Antarctic Peninsula by cruise ship, then this is the map for you. An excellent reference to takei with you and plot your voyage while travelling or once you get back before you forget the [... more]
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