Antarctica

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  Mangala Mani on her Antarctica expedition

  Last December, a small team of exhausted, but elated, ISRO scientists landed at Rajiv Gandhi International airport, sans fanfare and media hype. The team had successfully completed a 403-day expedition at India’s research station, Bharathi in Antarctica and the lone woman in the group Managala Mani had every reason to cheer. The first Polar Woman from ISRO, who’s ‘overwintered’ was selected to be featured by BBC’s ‘100 women Challenge’ for their series on Women in Science   Read More ...

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  U.S. scientists stranded on Antarctica isle rescued by Argentina icebreaker

  BUENOS AIRES – A group of American scientists who were stranded in an ice-bound island off the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula were rescued Sunday by an Argentine icebreaker, U.S. and Argentine authorities said Monday. The four scientists and a support staff member, who were conducting research at Joinville Island, were airlifted by helicopter to the Almirante Irizar icebreaker. Argentina’s Foreign Ministry said that the U   Read More ...

• US scientists rescued in Antarctica by Argentina icebreaker

  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — An Argentine icebreaker has rescued five American scientists who were stranded in an island off the northeast tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. Argentina's Foreign Ministry says the five scientists conducting research at Joinville Island were airlifted by helicopter Sunday to the Almirante Irizar icebreaker. The ministry said that the U.S. icebreaker Laurence M. Gould was unable to carry out the evacuation because the ice barrier was too dense on the Weddell Sea and that the U   Read More ...

• US scientists rescued in Antarctica by Argentina icebreaker

  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – An Argentine icebreaker has rescued five American scientists who were stranded in an island off the northeast tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. Argentina's Foreign Ministry says the five scientists conducting research at Joinville Island were airlifted by helicopter Sunday to the Almirante Irizar icebreaker. The ministry said that the U.S. icebreaker Laurence M. Gould was unable to carry out the evacuation because the ice barrier was too dense on the Weddell Sea and that the U   Read More ...

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  Stand by for trans-Antarctic aviation

  The traveller who sets off from London intent on flying around the world can do so in three hops – after a fashion. In the late 1980s, upgraded engines allowed Jumbo jets to reach Tokyo non-stop from the UK. From the Japanese capital, trans-Pacific flights opened up to Vancouver, San Francisco and Los Angeles. From any of these, you could make a final leap back to Britain   Read More ...

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  Curious Emperor penguins take a selfie in Antarctica | The Kansas City Star

  Curious Emperor penguins have been captured in Antarctica getting up close and personal on film. The vision was filmed at the Auster Rookery near Australia’s Mawson research station. Video produced by the Australian Antarctic Program.   Read More ...

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  Antarctica keeps attracting visitors — and it may be ‘last-chance tourism’

  Tourists are known to flock to New York, London and Paris for vacation getaways. But it seems travellers are increasingly taking a trip less taken — to Antarctica. Antarctica, or the South Pole of Earth, is the coldest continent and temperatures often drop below -73 degrees Celsius. And while photos often show snow and ice covering its sprawling landscapes, it is a desert where very little snow and rain falls   Read More ...

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  Penguins have selfie moment in Antarctica

  close Penguins in Antarctica seized the opportunity for a selfie when an Australian researcher left his camera on the ice. The expeditioner, Eddie Gault, was visiting the Auster Rookery, where a colony of emperor penguins lives in Antarctica, when the birds spotted it. The penguins are seen on video walking up to the camera, then looking down at it and inspecting it cautiously, for a while, offering viewers a rare closeup   Read More ...

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  Conspiracy theorists go wild after mysterious red X on Google Earth reveals ‘hidden secret beneath Antarctica’

  A video posted on YouTube channel Conspiracy Depot shows a mysterious "X" over the snow when you turn on the weather setting on Google Earth. "Looking through Google Earth tonight when I noticed a huge red X pointing to an area in Antarctica," the video says. When you zoom in, it appears to be pointing directly to a particular point in Antarctica, News   Read More ...

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  Women on the icy frontier

  The Australian Antarctic Division is aiming to improve gender balance on the ice, encouraging more tradeswomen to apply for positions down south. On International Women’s Day the Australian Antarctic Division is attending a two-day Tradeswomen Australia Conference in Brisbane. The Division’s Human Resources Manager Andrew Groom said about 25 percent of the people who travelled south with the Australian Antarctic Program this summer were women   Read More ...

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  This week at Davis: 9 March 2018

  Part of the focus for the week at Davis, amongst the plumbing, servicing fire alarms, maintaining engines and pumps, making water, eating great food, was our first SAR (search and rescue) training day. Winter SAR training kicked off in the warmth of the green store with 'injured' expos doing their best for an Oscar nomination and first responders providing attentive care and attention   Read More ...

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  Antarctic krill break down microplastics

  Antarctic krill can physically break down microplastics before excreting them back into the environment in an even smaller form, research published in Nature Communications has found. The experiment, run at the Australian Antarctic Division’s krill aquarium and led by Griffith University’s Southern Ocean Persistent Organic Pollutants Program (SOPOPP) PhD scholar, Dr Amanda Dawson, found krill have the ability to physically change the size of ingested microplastics and turn them into nanoplastics   Read More ...

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  This week at Macquarie Island: 9 March 2018

  Our summer season has now reached its conclusion, with the resupply ship Aurora Australis (AA) arriving at Macquarie Island in a few short days. The arrival of the AA will see commencement of the resupply operation. Over the following 8 days, the station will play host to up to 60 expeditioners each day, as we steadily complete personnel changeovers, cargo transfers, station refuelling, and various roundtrip science projects   Read More ...

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  Macquarie Island station goes virtual

  Macquarie Island research station will be captured in 360 degree virtual reality this month, to assist station redevelopment and provide a historical record of the current buildings. Australian Antarctic Division Macquarie Island Modernisation Project Manager, Adrian Young, will travel to the sub-Antarctic island on Australia’s icebreaker, Aurora Australis, today, with a team from Tasmanian business Sky Avenue Photography and Design. Mr Young said the photographic team will take 360 degree images from inside and outside the station and surrounding environment, and stitch these together to provide a virtual tour of the site   Read More ...

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  This week at Mawson: 9 March 2018

  Winter is coming! The temperature has dipped and we have ice forming again on Horseshoe Harbour and East Bay. We’ll see if it survives some coming winds… Aside from regular duties this week, a need to 'reset' some Geoscience Australia remote monitoring equipment meant a trip was needed to the vault. This is an actual vault underneath the Cosray building that was built by some very tenacious folk deep down into the rock in 1971   Read More ...

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  This week at Casey: 9 March 2018

  As I write this update, the sun is setting on our summer and winter is upon us. Today we have seen the last of our summer crew depart. There were fond farewells, contact details exchanged (Facebook friends made), and even a few tears as the 32 people who have been our family for the past four months flew out of Wilkins on the last flight for the season   Read More ...

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  Penguins found a camera in Antarctica and captured a surprisingly good selfie

  The selfie-snapping animals are at it again. Two emperor penguins in Antarctica captured a short video of themselves after coming across a camera left on the ice by a human. The Australian Antarctic Division posted the comical, 38-second clip to its social media channels Thursday. One of the group's expeditioners, Eddie Gault, had placed the camera on the ground near the Auster Rookery - home to a large emperor penguin colony - while visiting the nearby Mawson research station   Read More ...

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  Penguins pose for selfie video in Antarctica

  (ABC)– Two curious penguins starred in their own selfie video when they found a camera left on the ice in Antarctica. A member of the Australian Antarctic Program team, Eddie Gault, left a camera at the Auster Rookery — a penguin breeding ground — near Australia’s Mawson research station on Antarctica, according to the Australian Antarctic Program. The program, which shared the video Thursday, said “it didn’t take long for the naturally curious birds to seize the opportunity for a selfie   Read More ...

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  These penguins found a camera in Antarctica and captured a surprisingly good ‘selfie’

  Two emperor penguins in Antarctica captured a short video of themselves after coming across a camera left on the ice by a human. The Australian Antarctic Division posted the comical, 38-second clip to its social media channels Thursday. One of the group's expeditioners, Eddie Gault, had placed the camera on the ground near the Auster Rookery — home to a large emperor penguin colony — while visiting the nearby Mawson research station   Read More ...

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  These penguins found a camera in Antarctica and captured a surprisingly good ‘selfie’

  Two emperor penguins in Antarctica captured a short video of themselves after coming across a camera left on the ice by a human. The Australian Antarctic Division posted the comical, 38-second clip to its social media channels Thursday. One of the group's expeditioners, Eddie Gault, had placed the camera on the ground near the Auster Rookery – home to a large emperor penguin colony – while visiting the nearby Mawson research station   Read More ...

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  Emperor Penguin Selfie Taken In Antarctica, Flightless Birds Repositioned Camera To Snap The Perfect Angle

  Antarctica's emperor penguins show their vain side in a 38-second clip featuring the best way to capture a selfie. A member of the Australian Antarctic Division expedition left his camera on the ice and the film apparently captured an emperor penguin selfie. On Thursday, March 8, the clip posted by the agency on Facebook gained traction for a reason. The camera Eddie Gault left on ice close to the Auster Rookery and it caught the attention of two emperor penguins   Read More ...

• These penguins found a camera in Antarctica and captured a surprisingly good 'selfie'

  The selfie-snapping animals are at it again.Two emperor penguins in Antarctica captured a short video of themselves after coming across a camera left on the   Read More ...

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  These penguins found a camera in Antarctica and captured a surprisingly good 'selfie'

  The selfie-snapping animals are at it again. Two emperor penguins in Antarctica captured a short video of themselves after coming across a camera left on the ice by a human. The Australian Antarctic Division posted the comical, 38-second clip to its social media channels Thursday. One of the group's expeditioners, Eddie Gault, had placed the camera on the ground near the Auster Rookery - home to a large emperor penguin colony - while visiting the nearby Mawson research station   Read More ...

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  These penguins found a camera in Antarctica and captured a surprisingly good 'selfie'

  The selfie-snapping animals are at it again. Two emperor penguins in Antarctica captured a short video of themselves after coming across a camera left on the ice by a human. The Australian Antarctic Division posted the comical, 38-second clip to its social media channels Thursday. One of the group's expeditioners, Eddie Gault, had placed the camera on the ground near the Auster Rookery - home to a large emperor penguin colony - while visiting the nearby Mawson research station   Read More ...

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  PENGUIN 'SELFIE': Camera captures 'bird's eye' view of Antarctica

  The selfie-snapping animals are at it again. Two emperor penguins in Antarctica captured a short video of themselves after coming across a camera left on the ice by a human. The Australian Antarctic Division posted the comical, 38-second clip to its social media channels Thursday. One of the group’s expeditioners, Eddie Gault, had placed the camera on the ground near the Auster Rookery – home to a large emperor penguin colony – while visiting the nearby Mawson research station   Read More ...

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  Emperor penguins in Antarctica take unintentional ‘selfie’

  People got a bird’s eye view recently when two emperor penguins in Antarctica inadvertently took a “selfie” with a camera left on the ice. The penguins, known as the largest of the flightless black and white birds, were captured on video when two of the curious birds walked up to a stationary camera knocking it over. They then peer down at it, making noise, with one getting even closer to investigate   Read More ...

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  Penguins found a camera in Antarctica and captured a surprisingly good selfie

  The selfie-snapping animals are at it again. Two emperor penguins in Antarctica captured a short video of themselves after coming across a camera left on the ice by a human. The Australian Antarctic Division posted the comical, 38-second clip to its social media channels Thursday. One of the group's expeditioners, Eddie Gault, had placed the camera on the ground near the Auster Rookery - home to a large emperor penguin colony - while visiting the nearby Mawson research station   Read More ...

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  Curious Emperor penguins take a selfie video in Antarctica

  Two penguins stumbled across a camera that was left by Australian Antarctic explorer Eddie Gault as he was visiting the rookery.   Read More ...

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  These penguins found a camera in Antarctica and captured a surprisingly good ‘selfie’

  The selfie-snapping animals are at it again. Two emperor penguins in Antarctica captured a short video of themselves after coming across a camera left on the ice by a human. The Australian Antarctic Division posted the comical, 38-second clip to its social media channels Thursday. One of the group’s expeditioners, Eddie Gault, had placed the camera on the ground near the Auster Rookery — home to a large emperor penguin colony — while visiting the nearby Mawson research station   Read More ...

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  Emperor penguins find camera, take selfie in Antarctica

  ANTARCTICA (RNN) - The urge to "selfie" apparently is more than just human nature. Some Emperor penguins took up interest in a camera when Eddie Gault, an Australian Antarctic expeditioner, left it on the ice while at Auster Rookery near Australia’s Mawson research station. In the video, you can hear them making what can only be described as inquiring chirps while staring into the camera   Read More ...

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  Emperor penguins find camera, take selfie in Antarctica - | WBTV Charlotte

  ANTARCTICA (RNN) - The urge to "selfie" apparently is more than just human nature. Some Emperor penguins took up interest in a camera when Eddie Gault, an Australian Antarctic expeditioner, left it on the ice while at Auster Rookery near Australia’s Mawson research station. In the video, you can hear them making what can only be described as inquiring chirps while staring into the camera   Read More ...

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  Penguins find camera on ice during Antarctic expedition, 'take selfie'

  Some curious emperor penguins have been candidly captured in Antarctica getting up close and personal with an expeditioner's camera. The bird's-eye-view vision was shot at the Auster Rookery near Australia's Mawson research station, about 5,475 kilometres from Hobart. Australian Antarctic expeditioner Eddie Gault left the camera on the ice when visiting the rookery — and it was not long before the naturally inquisitive birds began to seize the opportunity for a selfie   Read More ...

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  Supercolony of Adelie penguins found near Antarctica

  A new colony of Adélie penguins has been discovered near Antarctica, substantially increasing the known populations of the knee-high creatures. “It’s always good news when you find new penguins,” said P. Dee Boersma, director of the Center for Ecosystem Sentinels at the University of Washington, who was not involved in the study. “The trends have not been good for so many of these species   Read More ...

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  These Are Some of the First Pictures of February’s Partial Solar Eclipse, As Seen From Antarctica

  Officials on Tuesday released some of the first pictures of last month’s partial solar eclipse, as seen from Antarctica. But the celestial event was hard to notice, experts said, even for those directly in its path. There was no change in the light on Earth during the partial solar eclipse and the moon only covered a sliver of the sun in South America, making the effects even less visible   Read More ...

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  Icy runway to get face-lift

  The final flight of the Antarctic season is due to take off for Australia’s Wilkins Aerodrome tomorrow, ahead of a face-lift planned for the glacial runway next season. After a decade of operation, engineering works will be undertaken on the blue ice runway in the summer of 2018–19 to reposition the strip. The Australian Antarctic Division’s General Manager of Operations Dr Rob Wooding, said the 3   Read More ...

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  Couple vow to visit all seven continents before having a baby – and have now announced pregnancy on their last stop in Antarctica

  Jordi Lippe-McGraw and husband Ross McGraw made a promise to one another to visit every continent on the planet before they had a baby. Over the past two years the couple have visited Africa, Europe, North and South America, Australasia, Asia and finally Antarctica before announcing their pregnancy.   Read More ...

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  A Supercolony of Penguins Has Been Found Near Antarctica

  Satellite images and a drone discovered about 1.5 million Adélie penguins living in the Danger Islands, one of two species whose habitats require ice. A new colony of Adélie penguins has been discovered near Antarctica, substantially increasing the known populations of the knee-high creatures. “It’s always good news when you find new penguins,” said P. Dee Boersma, director of the Center for Ecosystem Sentinels at the University of Washington, who was not involved in the new study   Read More ...

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  Spanish navy captain Javier Montojo Salazar dies in Antarctica

  A Spanish naval captain has died after apparently falling overboard from an ocean research ship in Antarctica. Javier Montojo Salazar was travelling on board the ship as a member of a scientific team. It is not clear why he fell, the Spanish navy says. It happened near a Spanish research base on an island off the Antarctic Peninsula. His body was discovered after a six-hour search   Read More ...

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  1.5 million rare Adelie penguins discovered in Antarctica

  A thriving 'hotspot' of 1.5 million Adelie penguins, a species fast declining in parts of the world, has been discovered on remote islands off the Antarctic Peninsula.   Read More ...

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  Incredible penguin population discovered in Antarctica with help of LSU professor

  A recent scientific expedition to the Danger Islands, a remote group of tiny islands along eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula, used new technologies to discover and survey a breeding colony of over one and a half million penguins. Michael Polito, assistant professor in the department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences at LSU, and co-authors detail their findings in a study published in the journal, Scientific Reports   Read More ...