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Russian news outlets are reporting that a team of Russian scientists have drilled into the subglacial Lake Vostok lying below two-and-a-half miles of ice. The lake is believed to have been isolated from Earth's atmosphere and biosphere since prehistory.
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White penguins are rare, and spotting a leucistic Chinstrap penguin is a once-in-a-lifetime event. The nearly-white penguin chick was photographed Monday by David Stephens, a naturalist on the National Geographic Journey to Antarctica expedition.
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Having already intercepted the Japanese whaling fleet on Christmas day, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SCSS) believes Japan is out for revenge.
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It's like something out of a Harry Potter or a Lord of the Rings movie, a death finger of ice that wiggles downward and freezes everything in its path, killing starfish and sea urchins, the deadly finger then weaves its way to the ocean floor.
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Buried deep beneath the Antarctic ice lies a mountain range similar in size to the European Alps. It was widely assumed the Gamburtsevs mountain range, discovered in the late 1950s, was just flat landscape entombed beneath glacial ice.
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The wildlife series Frozen Planet starring David Attenborough has dropped the seventh episode from its sales package to countries outside the UK.
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A glacier the size of New York or Berlin has recently split off in the Antarctic continent creating a split 800-feet wide. The glacial split in Pine Island runs for almost 20 miles (32km), is 60m (200ft) deep and is growing every day.
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Punta Arenas -
The colourful city of Punta Arenas, located 3,090 kilometers South of Santiago de Chile, is the main urban centre of the Patagonia Region; it is also known as “the end of the world” and the gateway to Tierra del Fuego and the Antarctic Continent.
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A young emperor penguin has been spotted on the western coast of New Zealand's North Island at Peka Peka Beach. The penguin's native Antarctica lies thousands of miles away.
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A strong 6.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred west of the Macquarie Island in Australia. There have been no reports of significant damage, injuries or deaths. No tsunami alert has been issued by the authorities.
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