The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has released an interactive map of Antarctica. It combines information on coastlines and contours and is available to everyone from tourists to researchers to the ...

What comes to mind when you think of Antarctica? Probably snow and ice. But a group of international scientists are shaking up what we think we know about the continent after unveiling a new, very ...

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has compiled a detailed topographical map using a wide range of datasets to reveal what lies beneath Antarctica's ice sheet. Bedmap2 builds on a previous iteration ...

The most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet has been assembled by a team of international ...

Antarctica isn’t a floating chunk of ice like the Arctic. Beneath its frozen surface sits a solid continent of mountains, ...

For the first time, scientists have made a 3-D map of sea ice in eastern Antarctica. The map will help reveal the amount of ice in the region, which is important for understanding how climate change ...

Peter Rejcek, Antarctic Sun Editor: A science team planning to hunker down in Bull Pass in Antarctica’s central McMurdo Dry Valleys would today receive a fairly simplistic map that outlines proposed ...

THE otherworldly continent of Antarctica seems all the more fantastical when seen from a new perspective, as shown in these maps laying out its different features in detail. The maps were devised and ...

A member of the Lynch Lab with a group of penguins in Antarctica. Credit: The Lynch Lab If you’re lucky enough to visit Antarctica, you’ll probably aim to snag a classic photo—a colony of penguins, ...