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

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 ...

Regardless, the Weddell Sea Expedition collected invaluable data that tells us more about our increasing effect on the Antarctic ice . Photograph by Weddell Sea Expedition What is the main ...

Register at [email protected] and we will contact when confirmed details including full pricing details are available. Journey to one of the most remote, breathtaking regions of Antarctica ...

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 ...

FRIS is protected by thick ice and near-freezing seawater flowing over the underwater continental shelf that rings the coast of Antarctica in the Weddell Sea. However, in the summer, warmer water ...

Scientists are learning just how fast the ice margin of Antarctica can retreat in a ... the sediments at the bottom of the western Weddell Sea. What the robots saw was a delicate pattern of ...

A ‘polynya’ is a large ice-free area that develops in an otherwise frozen sea, and this particular formation is situated in the Weddell Sea, east of the Antarctic Peninsula. At its peak ...

The Antarctica MPA covers a total area of 670,000 sq kilometers in two zones, General Protection (blue in the map), with no fishing ... in Eastern Antarctica and the Weddell Sea.