This year Russia opened its tenth base and China its fifth, India is building a third and Turkey is planning its first. Iran has not signed the treaty but has said it wants an Antarctic base to ...

TRAVEL TRENDS, ANTARCTICA Updated : Feb 3, 2025, 17:29 IST Planning an Antarctica trip? Here’s everything you need to know Often referred to as the last great frontier, Antarctica is the ...

Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have discovered microplastics in the snow near some of Antarctica's deep field camps. This is the first time these tiny pieces of plastic ...

Top Comments Disclaimer & comment rules golfcronie Why Rusian planes ? Feb 16th, 2013 - 09:23 pm 0 MrFlagpole Belgrano II. Well good luck with that. Feb 16th, 2013 - 09:25 pm 0 ...

"Possible face in Antarctica". What's more, it offers the coordinates of the place where it is located. And it gives it with such precision: 72°00'36.0"S 168°34'40.0"E. Face on Mars (1976 ...

Antarctica is truly a bucket-list destination ... good — especially considering we were essentially on a floating base camp for three weeks. Room service was also available 24/7, which we ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent might have been just that for the early ancestors of today’s living ...

Chile, for example, had already taken precautionary measures: putting its defense forces on alert, and calling security meetings at its Antarctic base to reiterate its territorial claims. And despite ...

Recently, Russian scientists claimed that the universe’s largest oil and gas reserves were discovered in the British Antarctic Territory. This discovery has significantly impacted geopolitics, the ...

Chile is planning an undersea fiber cable linking the country with Antarctica and several bases in the southernmost continent. With this purpose, Chile signed an agreement with Latin America's ...