During the Antarctic summer, 191 people live in Villa Las Estrellas, working and researching at the Chilean Antarctic station Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalvo on King George Island. Photo: Mefisto29 / Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED Chilean mobile communications company...
The German Neumayer Station in Antarctica is just one of the 64 research facilities that researchers can use as part of the POLARIN network. Photo: Klaus Guba The EU is funding the new POLARIN (Polar Research Infrastructure Network) research infrastructure project...
Southern giant petrels (Macronectes giganteus) are large predators, weighing between 3 and 5 kg. Image: Lucas Krüger Like the albatross, the giant petrel could be used to monitor fisheries in the Antarctic. Opportunistic, its home range allows it to cover a vast...
As here at Bernardo O’Higgins, Chile maintains year-round research facilities in Antarctica. Image: Sergio Gonzales Alacron / Wikipedia As part of Chile’s constitutional reform and the second phase of drafting a new constitution, the U-Antarctica group of...
Fin whales are particularly easy to spot when they show the right side of their head. Because the animals, which can reach up to 20 meters in length, have a two-colored lower jaw, in which the right side is white, but the left dark. But why remains a mystery. Image:...