Before the start of the Eocene Epoch about 56 million years ago--Antarctica was still joined to both Australia and South America. And it turns out that a lot of what we recognize about the southern hemisphere can be traced back to that...

Enterprise Island, formerly Nason Island, has a fascinating history since its charting in 1898. Located in Wilhelmina Bay, it is 1.5 nautical miles long and became known to whalers in the early 1900s. The island attracts scientists and...

Pupil outcome: I can use a range of geographical sources to describe Antarctica and its extreme weather and climate. Key learning points: - The Antarctic Circle is an imagined circle around the South Pole that surrounds the area known as...

Antarctica is not like every other continent. Aside from its extreme cold and vast ice sheet, it's also the only major piece of land that has never had a human settlement rise up on it. And because of this, as it was explored in the...

The oldest known human remains in Antarctica, belong to a young indigenous woman from southern Chile. They were found on Yamaha Beach at Cape Shirreff in the South Shetland Islands and date back to between 1819 and 1825. This discovery...

The discovery of fossilized trees and other plant remains in Antarctica, dating back over 260 million years, has forced scientists to reconsider the continent's history. These findings suggest that the region, now known for being the...

Gonzalez Videla Base, is on the Antarctic mainland at Waterboat Point in Paradise Bay. It is named after Chilean President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla, who in the 1940s became the first chief of state of any nation to visit Antarctica. The...

Last year Operation IceBridge flew for the first time out of McMurdo Station in Antarctica, reaching a new slate of exciting science targets. But that means it's now been two years since the mission has flown over critical areas in West...

The Gerlache Strait is named after the Belgian Adrien de Gerlache, who explored the Strait in 1898 Between the Palmer Archipelago and the Danco Coast-on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula-runs the sprawling waterway of Gerlache...

The Antarctic Peninsula is currently dotted with numerous research stations and nations have made multiple claims of sovereignty. The peninsula is part of disputed and overlapping claims by Argentina, Chile and the United Kingdom. None...