Antarctica

• Thursday, May 18th 2023 - 11:09 UTC

  BAS ends 2022/23 Antarctic field season with over sixty science projects

  

  The British Antarctic Survey 2022/23 Antarctic field season has ended, marking the conclusion of another successful year of scientific exploration in one of the world’s most remote and challenging environments.

• Wednesday, May 10th 2023 - 10:44 UTC

  Tierra del Fuego claims a record cruise season with 503 calls and 220,000 people

  

  Argentine province Tierra del Fuego authorities have said that 2022/23, has been an excellent cruise season with a record 503 calls and a turnover of some 220,000 people between passengers and crew members. Expectations for the next season are even better with at least 591 calls anticipated.

• Wednesday, May 10th 2023 - 10:00 UTC

  IAATO confirms the Falklands Development Corporation in its family

  

  The International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators welcomed five provisional operators and eight associates. Bunker One A/S, Freestyle Adventure Travel, South America Shipping, UnWild Planet Travel and Polar Tourism Guides Association were approved by IAATO members during an inter-session vote at the end of 2022 while Avila Reizen, Falkland Islands Development Corp. and Summit Aviation were voted in at the organization's recent annual meeting in Hamburg.

• Wednesday, April 26th 2023 - 02:49 UTC

  Penguins Day and the Falklands as one of the world's great penguin capitals

  

  Monday, April 25th, was Penguins Day, an occasion closely linked to the Falklands and its identity with the iconic penguin. In effect, most people imagine the flightless seabird to be solely polar creatures, much more at home in a world of ice and snow than on the sandy beaches and sheep paddocks of the Falkland Islands.

• Thursday, April 20th 2023 - 10:00 UTC

  BAS Rothera Research Station has new scientific and operational support facility

  

  Work got underway on the latest of the Royal Navy’s next-generation submarine hunters, a £840m Type 26 frigate warship which will carry the name and motto – Forward – of England’s second city, Birmingham, around the globe for a quarter of a century.A new scientific and operational support facility at Rothera Research Station for British Antarctic Survey has been made weather-tight, with the cladding complete and an operations tower installed.

• Wednesday, April 19th 2023 - 10:23 UTC

  Argentine ice breaker Almirante Irizar back in Ushuaia signals the end of 2022/23 Antarctica season

  

  Argentine icebreaker ARA Almirante Irizar is back in Ushuaia following its round of visits to Antarctica stations leaving all ready for the personnel that remained preparing for the long dark winter months. This has also meant the official end of the Argentine Antarctic Campaign 2022/23, which takes place under the operational command of the Joint Antarctic Command.

• Wednesday, April 19th 2023 - 10:10 UTC

  Guidance on CCAMLR Fisheries for British registered vessels fishing for profit

  

  The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has published the Guidance for people planning to fish with UK-registered vessels in waters administered under the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources.

• Wednesday, April 19th 2023 - 08:31 UTC

  South Georgia Government Officer Recruitment

  

  The Government of South Georgia & The South Sandwich Islands to recruit a Government Officer on a 40-month contract starting in September 2023.

• Monday, April 17th 2023 - 23:45 UTC

  Ushuaia ready to inaugurate the port's extension and already thinking on a further expansion only for cruise vessels

  

  Ushuaia, the extreme southern port in the Argentine Tierra del Fuego province is preparing for the inauguration of its extended port and logistics facilities sometime in the coming weeks but is also requesting more funds from the central government given the growing demand for berthing and the fact that cruise vessels are being built ever so larger.

• Wednesday, April 12th 2023 - 10:57 UTC

  Antarctic Tourism is up, but experts give it a thumbs down

  

  By Jen Rose Smith (*) – Even after Captain James Cook first sailed below the Antarctic Circle 250 years ago, icily inhospitable Antarctica stayed quiet for a long, long time. The only continent with no native human population, it remained a place apart, where occasional expeditions and intrepid researchers contended with harsh and sometimes deadly conditions.