When the Chifley government decided to annex Heard Island in 1947 as part of its larger push to occupy the Australian Antarctic Territory, the British government assented despite its legally tenuous ...

Removing the 27 million cubic km of ice that covers Antarctica, the hidden locations of the tallest mountains are revealed. From Bedmap3 updated ice bed, surface and thickness gridded datasets for ...

Everyone knows Antarctica is cold and icy, but what's underneath the ice has been a mystery. Scientists used six decades' worth of technology to take a peek.

But the legal — if nuanced — paradox of the UK’s so-called British Antarctic Territory (BAT) appears somewhat lost on The Telegraph comment, penned by “Anglofuturist” Tom Ough.

The British Antarctic Survey led the study and the results were published in the journal Scientific Data. As the name of the map implies, this is the third effort to illustrate Antarctica’s rock ...

In a newly published study, a group of scientists led by the British Antarctic Survey have unveiled the most detailed map to date of the landscape hidden deep below Antarctica’s ice. See it for ...

A new detailed map of Antarctica is set to significantly improve predictions of how ice flows and melts in response to climate change, say the scientists behind the project.

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 then ...

This leap forward is thanks to recent surveys in under-explored regions of East Antarctica, including the South Polar area. The map shows the location and size of the massive ice sheets based on ...

Mean thickness of Antarctic ice, including ice shelves: 1,948 m. (Excluding ice shelves: 2,148 m) Potential global sea-level rise if all ice melted: 58 m Source: British Antarctic Survey ...