“ARTEMIS” will be deployed in hard-to-reach locations in Antarctica and on sub-Antarctic islands, where researchers have difficulty getting to. (Photo: AAD) The Australian Antarctic Division will deploy three high-tech automated weather stations with...
The “Nuyina” is one of the most advanced polar research vessels in the world and continues a proud Australian history of exploration and science in Antarctica. (Photo: Richard Jupe / AAD) Australia’s new Antarctic icebreaker needs repairs just days...
It should be quiet in the future, as it has been so far, at Davis Station in Australia. (Photo: AAD) Australia has abandoned plans to build a 2,700m concrete runway near its Davis research station on the coast of Antarctica. Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s...
Snow-covered Vestfold Hills (Photo: Tiarnán Colgan) A team of three geotechnical specialists will begin winter surveys near Australia’s Davis Research Station in East Antarctica to collect data on soil, rock and ice in the area proposed for a new aerodrome. This...
The journey to the highest Kunlun station at an altitude of 4,087 metres, 1,220 km from the coast, is arduous and takes about 2 weeks. (Photo: Xinhua) Is the 60-year-old Antarctic Treaty robust enough to stop China? In the 1959 treaty, more than 50 states agreed not...
