June 21st marks the longest night in Antarctica and a very special Midwinter’s Day with 47 people or ‘winterers’ living and working at British Antarctic Survey’s (BAS) three winter ...

Extreme precipitation events in Antarctica, which are mostly dominated by snowfall due to sub-zero temperatures, also include ...

As mountains go, Antarctica’s Vinson Massif* is not particularly awe-inspiring in its height. A humpbacked hunk of granite that rises to 16,860 ft., Vinson is the highest known peak on the ...

Mount Vinson is more than three times higher than the biggest mountain ... children live in Antarctica. It would be too cold to grow up there. In parts of Antarctica the winter temperature can ...

A mountain in Antarctica, hidden beneath layers of snow ... a natural process where water enters rock cracks during the day, freezes at night, and expands. Over millions of years, this process ...

THE Ellsworth Mountains are centred at 79° S., 85° W. in West Antarctica south of the eastern Pacific Ocean (sec Fig. 1). They extend about 220 miles in a north-north-west direction and are ...

He’s in Antarctica on a mission to find the world ... but around the world, in Greenland, in mountains — are melting,” he said. “The actual ice core record, this archive of past climate ...