Antarctica’s ice sheet is the largest mass of ice on Earth, and about half the ice sheet is more than 5 kilometers (3 miles) from any bed topography measurement. This means that what lies beneath is ...

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has released an interactive map of Antarctica. It combines information on coastlines and contours and is available to everyone from tourists to researchers to the ...

Just when scientists thought they'd mapped out some of the lowest, deepest land found on Earth, a brand new map has changed everything. A new NASA creation, the BedMachine Antarctica map, has combined ...

Dec. 12 (UPI) --Scientists have successfully mapped the topography of the land beneath Antarctica's ice sheet at high resolution by combining radar observations with ice volume and flow velocity data.

Scientists have completed the most detailed map of the land under the frozen ice sheet of Antarctica. This is the third version of this map, and is known as Bedmap3. It has incorporated data from ...

Glaciologists have unveiled the most accurate portrait yet of the contours of the land beneath Antarctica's ice sheet -- and, by doing so, have helped identify which regions of the continent are going ...

A tiny seed is stuck between loose gravel and coarse sand. There is nothing else alive around it. All it can see is a wall of ice reaching 20 metres up into the sky. It is cold. Survival is hard ...

Antarctica, often regarded as the planet’s last true wilderness, harbours unique ecosystems that support extraordinary biodiversity and contribute to global diversity and environmental stability.

About 4,000 scientists travel around the vast, ice-covered continent of Antarctica each year to look at topics ranging from climate change to the search for dark matter, and prior to 2007, they were ...

Antarctica’s peculiar green snow is spreading, according to researchers who have created the first large-scale map of microscopic algae growing on the chilly, southernmost continent. As the climate ...

THE Antarctic regions have been of official interest to Australia since 1933, when the Commonwealth Government announced its claim to a large sector of the continent south of the Indian Ocean between ...

Scientists have discovered the world's deepest land canyon thousands of feet below an Antarctic glacier. Glaciologists led by the University of California, Irvine have unveiled what they describe as ...