The Antarctic Circle is one of the five major circles or parallels of latitude that mark maps of the Earth. It is at latitude 66 degrees 33′ 39″ south of the equator (in 2000; like its ...

Bedmap3 is the newest map showing what Antarctica will look like without ice. British Antarctic Survey. Scientists used data from planes, satellites, ships, and dog sleds to create the map and ...

1st map of Antarctica's green space unveiled. Here's what it shows. Story by Claudia Colesie • 9mo. A tiny seed is stuck ...

For Andrew Evans, passing over the Antarctic Circle was akin to crossing a sacred finish line. I’ve crossed a lot of lines on this journey–state lines, borderlines, the equator, both tropics ...

A global port-to-port shipping map shows network of ships that visited Antarctica between 2014 and 2018. The PNAS study showed that shipping connected Antarctica to ports from around the world in ...

An icy new map of Antarctica could help direct the search for alien life The Bedmap3 survey is bringing the polar continent into focus, which could help detect life on icy moons.

The Antarctic ice sheet, which covers 98% of the continent, averages around 1.2 miles in thickness, with its thickest point reaching nearly 3 miles, the Australian Antarctic Program reports.

Roughly 60 percent of the area of buttressing ice shelves around Antarctica should be vulnerable to hydrofracturing, the researchers estimate. And their fracture map shows that some are present in ...

[bc3]1116747803001[/bc3] Scientists at UC Irvine have created a first-ever map of glaciers across the Antarctic continent, revealing new details of speed and movement that should prove critical in … ...

This vegetation area makes up just 0.12% of Antarctica's total ice-free area, highlighting that Antarctica remains the frozen continent dominated by snow and ice. For now. RELATED STORIES ...