The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has released an interactive map of Antarctica. It combines information on coastlines and contours and is available to everyone from tourists to researchers to the ...

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A tiny seed is stuck between loose gravel and coarse sand. There is nothing else alive around it. All it can see is a wall of ice reaching 20 metres up into the sky. It is cold. Survival is hard ...

West Antarctica’s “marine grounded” ice reflects this restless foundation. Unlike its eastern counterpart, it rests in a deep ...

What comes to mind when you think of Antarctica? Probably snow and ice. But a group of international scientists are shaking up what we think we know about the continent after unveiling a new, very ...

Today we're having a peek at the newly revealed and newly-public "most accurate" high resolution terrain map of Antarctica. This is REMA, or the Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica. Straight from ...

Chances are you make it through most days without sparing a thought for Antarctica. At just over 5.4 million square miles, it's a massive chunk of land that is nearly twice the size of Australia and ...

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has compiled a detailed topographical map using a wide range of datasets to reveal what lies beneath Antarctica's ice sheet. Bedmap2 builds on a previous iteration ...

Scientists have deployed artificial intelligence to cut seafloor image analysis from hours — or even years — to seconds, ...

Scientists have mapped Antarctica’s terrain in unprecedented detail, in what’s said to be the highest-resolution map of its kind for any continent in the world. The new map shows a much better look at ...

Planning a trip to Antarctica? Now there's a new map to guide your way. Scientists from Ohio State University and the University of Minnesota have created what they say is the best, most complete and ...

Oceanographers often proclaim maps of Mars are more complete than charts of Earth's seafloor. Now, the planet's depths are a little clearer thanks to a newly released bathymetric map of the Southern ...