At more than 300 metres, today’s biggest cruise liners easily dominate Ushuaia’s 624m main peir (Photo: Direccion provincial de puertos) The cruise industry is booming, and trips to Antarctica are particularly popular. The port of Ushuaia is betting that a major...
Showa Station is a Japanese Antarctic research station established in 1957 on Ongul Island off the coast of Queen Maud Land. The sea around the station is usually covered with ice all year round (Photo: NIPR) The sea around Japan’s Showa Station is covered with sea...
Russian coal production in Svalbard will be reduced by two-thirds to 40,000 tonnes per year by 2032 (Photo: Arktikugol) After acquiring the rights to mine coal on Spitsbergen more than a century ago, Russia says it will reduce coal production to the minimum needed to...
Few would doubt the bravery of Aeneas Mackintosh. Had his luck been better, the British sailor and explorer might have been remembered as one of the greats of Antarctic exploration Aeneas Lionel Acton Mackintosh was born on 1 July 1879, in Tirhut, Bihar, India. He was...
The Ivan Frolov will be the fourth ship in the fleet of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute and will facilitate research projects on the high seas. It will also transport staff and equipment to Arctic and Antarctic stations (Photo: Roshydromet) The ship is...
