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  • Wednesday, May 28th 2014 - 00:27 UTC

    Antarctica visitors up 9% in 2013/14 season, totaling 37.405, according to IATTO

    IATTO is holding its 25th annual meeting in Providence

    The International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO) announced its tourism figures for the 2013-2014 season, on the first day of its 25th Annual Meeting in Providence, Rhode Island. The total number was 37.405, up 9% with a growing prevalence of Chinese visitors.

  • Wednesday, April 30th 2014 - 03:22 UTC

    Argentina's “Blue Pampa” project to research and develop South Atlantic resources

    South Georgia waters is one of the targets as well as Antarctic waters

    The recently launched “Blue Pampa” project is a ten-year 'strategic initiative' with the purpose of researching South Atlantic resources in five different areas to ensure conservation and management, plus reinforce Argentine sovereignty with inter-disciplinary campaigns and inter-ministerial support, according to Argentina's Science, Technology and Productive Innovation ministry.

  • Monday, April 28th 2014 - 23:29 UTC

    IAATO estimates 36.545 tourists will travel to Antarctica next season 2014/15

    Marlynda Elstgeest, Chair of the IAATO Executive Committee

    New figures released on Monday by the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO), estimate that 36,545 tourists will travel with IAATO members to Antarctica next season, 2014-2015. The information was reported at the first day of the 37th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) in Brasilia, which IAATO attend as Invited Experts.

  • Friday, April 25th 2014 - 23:19 UTC

    NASA and BAS tracking major Antarctic iceberg, B31, now in open waters

    BAS marked the iceberg with a total of 37 GPS tracking devices earlier during the year (Pic NASA)

    NASA has lately spotted a gigantic iceberg in Antarctica, identified as B31 and together with UK's BAS (British Antarctic Survey), is busy tracking the monster island of ice, which has now escaped into open waters. Despite its sheer size and mass, --experts estimate that the giant iceberg is approximately 600 square kilometres in size--, monitoring is not going to be an easy task with the coming of the Antarctic winter and ensuing darkness.

  • Friday, April 25th 2014 - 21:24 UTC

    UK £200 million new polar research vessel will ensure presence in Antarctica and he South Atlantic

    The design of the state of the art research vessel

    The British government will fund a new £200 million polar research ship to put UK scientists at the forefront of climate and ocean research in both Antarctica and the Arctic, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced on Friday in a speech.

  • Wednesday, January 8th 2014 - 01:00 UTC

    IAATO expedition vessel helps HCA chart Antarctic waters

    Stephen Wilkins, skipper of the yacht Xplore

    An IAATO sailing yacht has demonstrated that private and commercial vessels on expeditions in Antarctica can perform official hydrographic surveys and produce navigational charts that are still much needed for the region. Results were presented at the 13th Conference of the Hydrographic Commission on Antarctica (HCA) in Cadiz, Spain 3-5 December, hosted by the Spanish Navy.

  • Sunday, January 5th 2014 - 14:41 UTC

    US icebreaker sent to Antarctica to rescue Chinese and Russian trapped vessels

    The Polar Star is expected to reach the ice packed Commonwealth Bay

    A U.S. Coast Guard heavy icebreaker left Australia for Antarctica on Sunday to rescue more than 120 crew members aboard two icebreakers trapped in pack ice near the frozen continent’s eastern edge, officials said. The 122-meter cutter, the Polar Star, is responding to a Jan. 3 request from Australia, Russia and China to assist the Russian and Chinese ships.

  • Friday, January 3rd 2014 - 14:43 UTC

    Chinese icebreaker trapped in Antarctica after rescuing passengers from Russian vessel

    “Snow Dragon” waiting for a change in tidal conditions, with “Aurora Australis” on stand-by

    The Chinese icebreaker that helped rescue 52 passengers from a Russian ship stranded in Antarctic ice found itself stuck in heavy ice, further complicating the 9-day “roller-coaster” rescue operation. “Snow Dragon” (Xue Long) had ferried the passengers from the stranded Russian ship to an Australian icebreaker late on Thursday.

  • Thursday, January 2nd 2014 - 16:00 UTC

    China starts to build its fourth Antarctica base: more planned

    “Great Wall” on Antarctica’s King George Island, China's fist Antarctica base

    Just days after the Chinese rover Jade Rabbit settled down on the moon, China is setting out to bolster its presence in another remote place: Antarctica. Chinese state media said on Thursday that construction workers are en route to the future site of China’s fourth Antarctic research station, after a pit stop at one of its other bases.

  • Thursday, November 14th 2013 - 19:20 UTC

    Two UK scientists keeping track of Manhattan size iceberg moving in the Southern ocean

    Professor Bigg is a leading iceberg expert from the University of Sheffield

    An Iceberg, the size of Manhattan in area, was derived from the Pine Island Glacier, and is currently moving through the Southern Ocean. To keep track of its movements and melting Professor Grant Bigg of UK's University of Sheffield has been awarded a £50,000 grant from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) for the 6 month project.