The seal attacked Kirsty Brown without warning and dragged her underneath the water as she snorkelled in a bay near the organization's base at Rothera on the Antarctic Peninsular. An onshore cover ...

It was flown in, via the Falkland Islands, this week to immunize the 23 staff members who've been keeping the British Antarctic Survey, BAS, Rothera research base running through the polar winter.

A British ship flying the Falkland Islands flag has sparked diplomatic tensions with Argentina.

The Royal Research Ship Ernest Shackleton is also expected soon with supplies. Together with the Rothera base on the Antarctic Peninsula, Halley spearheads British activity on the White Continent.

At the Rothera base, people shot seals for dog food until 1994. Joe Levy, a professor of geology at Colgate University, is also drawing comparisons between Antarctica and Mars. Levy has studied ...

The biggest base, Rothera, on the Antarctic Peninsula houses 19 winterers – the population can reach 100 in the Summer. Furthest south still is Halley VI on the Brant ice shelf where the Sun ...

For ten years he was Base Commander of the Rothera Research Station in Antarctica and was awarded Her Majesty The Queen's Polar Medal. He also received the US Navy Polar Medal for his work with ...