Antarctica

• Monday, November 10th 2025 - 20:22 UTC

  Antarctica expedition company flies guests in helicopter to Emperor penguins island

  

  Quark Expeditions announced that by using two twin-engine helicopters from the Ultramarine, it brought guests to the remote Snow Hill Island Emperor penguin colony. “After months of in-depth preparation, the expedition team took to the skies at dawn with our two twin-engine Airbus helicopters to deliver our guests to the famed Emperor penguin colony,” said Expedition Leader Ryan McDevitt.

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• Wednesday, November 5th 2025 - 16:43 UTC

  Bad news for Punta Arenas: NFS Antarctic researchers and icebreakers return to US

  

  Severe cuts in Budget resources for the United States National Science Foundation, (NSF) dictated by president Donald Trump are having an impact on Antarctic research, and a huge financial loss for the community of Punta Arenas, Magallanes Region, extreme south of Chile, according to polar scientists.

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• Tuesday, November 4th 2025 - 09:18 UTC

  Considerable shrinking of Antarctic glacier reported

  

  Experts have expressed their concern after a study revealed that the Hektoria Glacier in eastern Antarctica retreated by 50% in just two months —between November and December 2022— losing 8.2 kilometers of ice. This rate of ice loss is nearly ten times faster than previously measured for land-based glaciers, setting a new record.

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• Monday, November 3rd 2025 - 19:52 UTC

  Discovery Building, a milestone for Rothera Base and BAS in Antarctica

  

  The 2025/2026 Antarctic season is a landmark for the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and its Antarctic Infrastructure Modernization Project (AIMP), as the new Discovery Building begins to take on its operational role. Specialist teams will be on site from this month to check the building’s critical systems are working as expected and to carefully manage the removal of six older structures, the functions of which are now integrated within the Discovery Building.

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• Saturday, October 25th 2025 - 10:00 UTC

  Punta Arenas planning a world-class aquarium with over 90 Antarctic species

  

  Punta Arenas, extreme south of Chile, is planning and betting big, a future polar aquarium at the International Antarctic Center, CAI, exhibiting over 90 species from the austral ocean, and with four main sponsors, the Magallanes University, the Magallanes Region Government, the Chilean Antarctic Institute and the Chilean Science Ministry

• Friday, October 17th 2025 - 10:19 UTC

  FACh helicopter goes missing

  

  Chile's Air Force (FACh) lost contact on Thursday afternoon with an MH-60M Black Hawk helicopter carrying four crew members near the Eduardo García Soto refuge in a remote area of the Southern Ice Fields in the Aysén region.

• Friday, October 17th 2025 - 00:59 UTC

  British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has officially launched its 2025/26 Antarctic field season

  

  October 16 marked the arrival of the first aircraft at Rothera Research Station and the departure of the Falklands-flagged RRS Sir David Attenborough from the UK. The new season brings a full schedule of ambitious science, deep-field exploration, and major infrastructure milestones across the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic.

• Thursday, October 9th 2025 - 08:54 UTC

  “Ticket to Antarctica,” Fleet of BAS airplanes heading from Canada to Rothera research station

  

  The fleet of British Antarctic Survey, BAS, aircraft have taken off on their annual ‘ferry flights’ from Canada, in preparation for a new season of science in Antarctica. The BAS fleet of aircraft is now flying the thousands of miles to the UK’s Rothera Research Station on the Antarctic Peninsula – a vast journey that is broken down across 11 stops over the North and South American continents, including Falkland Islands.

• Wednesday, October 8th 2025 - 21:33 UTC

  South Georgia receives the visit of Commissioner Martin-Reynolds

  

  The Governor of the Falkland Islands and Commissioner of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Mr. Colin Martin-Reynolds has visited the British Overseas Territory, some 1.400 kilometers east/south east of the Falklands, and which are also in his realm of action.

• Monday, October 6th 2025 - 08:39 UTC

  South Georgia invitation to Tender for a UK flagged Fisheries Protection Vessel

  

  The Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI) invites tenders for the Time Charter of a UK-flagged Patrol, Security and Fisheries Protection Vessel (FPV).