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The "Endless Sea" is trapped in the ice and is spilling fuel. There is no hope of containing damage until October this year, due to the long South Pole winter.
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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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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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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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A group of engineers from Britain plan on taking a journey to a lake that is beneath the ice of Antarctica. The lake is located almost two miles beneath the ice.
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In a “game changer” for glaciology, NASA-funded researchers have compiled a map of ice as it moves from Antarctica’s inner regions to the continent’s coast, the first complete map to show direction and speed as the ice moves.
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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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Vancouver -
His name is Paul D. Miller but a lot of people know him only as DJ Spooky. It's hard to describe what he does; some say he is a conceptual artist but they never tell us what that means. .
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In a world first, the sex life of Antarctic krill in the wild has been caught on camera by scientists from the Australian Antarctic Division.
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Woman Is First Person to Cross Antarctica Solo on Skis
A Russian yacht with an eight-strong crew goes missing in Antarctica during an expedition to the South and North Poles, a spokesperson tells the BBC News website.
Antarctic nations to impose strict codes on visiting ships amid tourism burst.
Antarctica - Tourism - Polar region - Antarctic - Science and Environment
What's behind the drive to explore Antarctica's lakes?
Photographer shows effects of climate change on a fragile part of the world.
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A photo from the window of NASA's DC-8 shows the rift across the Pine Island Glacier ice shelf running off toward the horizon. The plane flew across the crevasse on Oct. 26, 2011 as part of NASA's Operation IceBridge, and also flew directly over the rift for about 18 miles, taking detailed measurements of its depth, width and shape. The ice shelf hasn't calved a major iceberg since 2001, and IceBridge took advantage of the opportunity afforded by spotting the crack to fly over it and measure its
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Antarctica Blogs
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