Sue Halliwell marks the 150th anniversary of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s birth by tracing his ill-fated British ...

He hunted for birds’ nests, marking their locations on a map ... party sailed toward the Weddell Sea, the southernmost arm of the Atlantic Ocean, and headed for Antarctica.

Arctic daily sea ice extent continued to hover near record daily lows in January, with the ice edge well northward of its long-term average position in most areas. In contrast to the cold conditions ...

The first antarctic expedition falls into that ... The sledge journey , Is planned to start from the Weddell Sea (as indicated on our map). The final equipment of the ship for its journey will ...

And in 1947, when he was just 17, he joined the one-year U.S.S. Beaumont Expedition to Antarctica ... helped map over 450,000 square miles of previously unexplored land in the Weddell Sea.

Near the Filchner Ice Shelf in the south of the Antarctic Weddell Sea, a research team has found the world’s largest fish breeding area known to date. A towed camera system photographed and ...

The jagged fragment has an area of roughly 31 sq miles (80 sq km) - just a fraction of the approximately 1,297 sq miles ...

Billions of people would become climate refugees. An Emperor penguin alone in the vast landscape of the Weddell Sea, Antarctica. The first person to articulate this fear was glaciologist John ...

A23a has followed roughly the same path as previous massive icebergs, passing the east side of the Antarctica Peninsula through the Weddell Sea along a route called "iceberg alley." That is the ...

The mass mostly took the same path as other large icebergs exiting the Weddell Sea, heading down “iceberg alley,” Lieser said. Iceberg alley starts on the northeastern side of the Antarctic ...