Mass changes across the Antarctic ice sheet have been detected using satellite gravimetry, revealing significant ...

Those long decades of work have gradually given rise to a new virtual map of the Antarctic continent, the most detailed look below the ice we've ever had. The product of a new study led by ...

But with global heating and climate change wreaking havoc on the ice caps of Antarctica, researchers are looking to a new map of the south polar region to better map global warming changes and ...

Despite being overlooked down at the South Pole, Antarctica actually plays a large role in our world and you would notice if ...

The first complete map of the speed and direction of ice flow in Antarctica will help scientists to track future sea-level increases, according to the team behind the project. NASA-funded ...

The most detailed map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet has been assembled by a team of international scientists led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). Known as Bedmap3 ...

Shackleton planned to be the first person to cross Antarctica. He was headed for the area of Coats Land (in the Weddell Sea) when his ship got stuck in pack ice. In Shackleton's original plan ...

A new map shows the Antarctic continent in greater detail than ever before. It should help us to better understand the effects of climate change. What does it look like under the ice? Under the ...

Caption Maps of Antarctic topography with restorations for removal of the load of modern ice only (left), and additionally for erosion, sedimentation, thermal contraction, and horizontal plate ...