Antarctica is a cold and unforgiving place, unsuited for all but the most prepared visitor, but it's also has a few more ...
This story appears in the July 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. The scene: a tent on Mount Erebus, an active volcano on Ross Island, Antarctica. The tent is a four-cornered tepee ...
Mount Erebus is the world’s southernmost active volcano and the second-tallest volcano in Antarctica with a summit reaching 12,448 feet. It is probably the most expensive too. The volcano embedd ...
Most Antarctic trips explore the western peninsula departing from South America for about 10 days. This is the most beautiful ...
The first antarctic expedition falls into that ... pack-ice . . They then proceeded to Cape Royds near the volcano, Mount Erebus_ Here the “Nimrod” left them and went north, to return .the ...
Credit: COURTESY OF ROBERTA FARRELL, ZYGEM" /> Credit: COURTESY OF ROBERTA FARRELL, ZYGEM Twenty-five years ago, New Zealand researchers Roy Daniel and Hugh Morgan made an arduous six-week expedition ...
Mount Erebus in Antarctica is the most southerly active volcano in the world. It began to form around 1.3 million years ago. Some animals have adapted to the freezing conditions in Antarctica.
Three decades ago a scientist at the University of Colorado Denver suggested that heat from a “mantle plume” under Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica might explain regional volcanic ...