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Internet users want to know what the strange doorway in Antarctica ice is- theories suggesting Bigfoot or an underground ...

Sue Halliwell marks the 150th anniversary of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s birth by tracing his ill-fated British ...

Antarctica's first sighting on January 28, 1820, by Bellingshausen and Lazarev marked the beginning of unparalleled ...

Discovered by the West not much more than 200 years ago, Antarctica’s history is unique when compared to the six other ...

Finally, contemporaneous rocks to the breakup of Antarctic Peninsula from Patagonia that led ... This information was used to generate maps for each island, which are present in the Supplementary ...

The world’s biggest iceberg — a wall of ice the size of Rhode Island — is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica that’s home to millions of penguins and seals.

What is a continent? We think of it as a large body of land surrounded by the sea, aka, ocean. There are a few continent sized countries. Australia is the only continent that is also one country.

Schematic map of separate volcanoes and volcanic provinces in Western Antarctica position ... The Brown University Rhode Island researchers noted that the end of previous ice ages was associated ...