The area is divided into two parts of almost equal size, the northern half being a prohibited zone. Mount Erebus provides one of only three known high-altitude
ice sheets tend to form independent climatic patterns and thus to be self-perpetuating and eventually perhaps even self-destructing. Coldair massesdraining off Antarctic lands, for example, cool and freeze surrounding oceans in winter to form an ice pack, which reducessolar energyinput by increasing...
who tramp past their nests by the thousands each year. Breeding success seems more closely linked to local environmental conditions, such as snow cover or the availability of krill. Nevertheless, much of the area is off-limits to tourists
About 50,000 tourists visit Antarctica each year, there are about 1,000 people there on land bases at all times which rises to 4,000 during the short summer months, it is not hidden, secret or off-limits.Under the terms of the Antarctic Treaty there are no national territorial claims, ...
pack icePack ice in the waters off Antarctica.(more) Causal factors leading to the birth and development of these continental ice sheets and then to their decay and death are, nevertheless, still poorly understood. The factors are complexly interrelated. Moreover, once developed, ice sheets tend...
(often used in medical microbiology) are suitable for AMR detection in this environment, especially as cultivation success levels are low and there may be as yet undefined specific triggers for expression. Overall, the isolated and uncoordinated nature of the studies limits our ability to interpret...
Discover the best attractions in Antarctica including Terra Nova Hut, Shackleton’s Hut, and Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
Last Man Off: A True Story of Disaster and Survival on the Antarctic Seas by Matt Lewis Amazon|Goodreads The waters of Antarctica, 1998. A 23-year-old Lewis has just started his dream job aboard a deep-sea fishing boat. A storm hits. With the captain missing and the crew forced to ab...
Wittenoomis a ghost town 1,106 kilometres (687 mi) north-north-east of Perth in the Hamersley Range in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The area around Wittenoom was mainly pastoral until the 1930s when mining began in the area. By 1939, major mining had begun in Yampire Gorge,...
The much larger area of continental Antarctica comprises the geological regions of East and West Antarctica and their offshore islands, plus the eastern coastal regions of the Antarctic Peninsula. However, the latter was historically included under the “continental Antarctica” definition primarily due ...