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...
Researchers from the Japanese National Institute of Polar Research have installed cameras on the backs of 8 Adélie penguins from the Hukuro Cove colony on Queen Maud Land, 20 kilometers from the Japanese Antarctic base Syowa. Image: Michael Wenger A camera on the back...
Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis and Alderman James Vos in Antarctica. (Photo: Geordin Hill-Lewis) Cape Town, along with Punta Arenas, Ushuaia, Hobart and Christchurch, is one of the five locations through which almost all cargo and personnel shipments to Antarctica pass. The...
The aircraft carrying out the mission was Hi Fly ‘s A340-300 with registration 9H-SOL. (Photo: Sybren Meijntz) On 2 and 4 November 2021, an Airbus A340-300 operated two flights to Antarctica from Cape Town. While details about the mission are not known, it is...
The future has already begun In retrospect, the developments of Antarctic expeditions over the last 30 years can be seen. Following the motto “by fair means” – or actually “by purest means” – some saw the renunciation of the use of...
