Antarctica's nearest neighbour is the tip of South America, although this is still around 1,000km away. It would take over two days to reach it by boat. The Geographic South Pole is the most ...

A team of international scientists compiled decades of data to create a map showing the topography of Antarctica with the ice ...

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than ...

there are Amundsen-Scott Station at the geographic south pole, and Palmer Station, north of the Antarctic peninsula. “If I was going to describe it in musical form,” Nelson says ...

A media storm blew up in mid-March 2025 when a researcher at South Africa's isolated Sanae IV base in Antarctica accused one ...

Climate change is also driving penguins to colonize new areas, or to stay in regions longer than they normally would, ...

For years, the BAS has been studying the bedrock beneath Antarctica's thick ice using advanced radar, sound waves, and gravity mapping techniques.

A researcher at South Africa's isolated Sanae IV base in Antarctica accused a colleague of attacking coworkers.