The McMurdo Station is the largest research and logistics station in Antarctica and is operated by the United States Antarctic Program (USAP) of the US government. (Photo: Elaine Hood, National Science Foundation) Author: William (Bill) Muntean, U.S. Department of...
A contemporary French diplomat, Olivier Poivre d’Arvor projects himself into the year 2048, when the Antarctic Treaty expires, the balance of power shifts towards mining or maintaining the embargo, and it becomes possible to communicate with birds. Last January,...
The paved runway was to be built near the Australian Davis station. Apart from a misguided investment of 19 million AUS dollars, nothing is left of the original plan. (Photo: AAD / Andrew Garner) Australia’s government had hoped that a paved runway near its...
Tiny Hans Island, the bone of contention, is a limestone rock measuring just 1.4 km2 in the middle of the Nares Strait. In future, it will be Greenland’s first land border, while for Canada and Denmark it will be the second. (Photo: Toubletap via Wikicommons...
Pride parades have been a way for the LGBTQI community worldwide to call for more rights and equality and to raise public awareness for years. The cheerful and colorful parades have also become an integral part of the annual program in Arctic communities (here in...