This story appears in the July 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. The scene: a tent on Mount Erebus, an active volcano on Ross Island, Antarctica. The tent is a four-cornered tepee ...

In a recent discovery, scientists found that the highest active volcano in Antarctica is emitting gold particles along with volcanic gases. Mount Erebus which is still volcanically active was ...

Mount Vinson is the highest mountain in Antarctica - it is 4,892 metres tall. Mount Erebus in Antarctica is the most southerly active volcano in the world. It began to form around 1.3 million ...

It's the world's southernmost active volcano and one of two active volcanoes in Antarctica out of the 138 on the continent. Mount Erebus measures ... data reporting using maps and charts to ...

and snow in search of thermophilic bacteria on the volcanic slopes of Mount Erebus, the world's most southerly active volcano. Erebus rises some 3,660 meters from Ross Island, in the icy oceans near ...