The Ross Ice Shelf in eastern Antarctica is the largest ice shelf in the world. Here, too, researchers fear increased melting, as on other Antarctic ice shelves. Using new probes both in the water and from the air, an international team of scientists has now...
Heritage Expeditions’ ship, the Spirit of Enderby, in the middle of the Antarctic pack ice, will become a reality again in February if Aaron and Nathan Russ’ plans are anything to go by. Photo: Heritage Expeditions Since the beginning of the COVID...
The Ross Sea area of East Antarctica is home to Antarctica’s largest penguin colonies. Primarily Adélie penguins live here, attracted by the great abundance of food in the region. They go far out to sea and use ice floes as resting places. Picture: Michael...
Antarctica is a place of longing, a place where time seems to stand still. And yet life rages here. A television crew joined our friends from Heritage Expeditions on a trip to the Ross Sea and brings you right into the middle of it. Tune in, come along and be...
The site where the colony was found is situated at Cape Irizar, a rocky area south of the Drygalski Glacier tongue on the Scott Coast in the Ross Sea. Since Robert Falcon Scott had discovered this area, no Adélie penguin colony had been ever recorded here. Photo:...