Antarctica

• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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).

• Tuesday, September 2nd 2025 - 10:21 UTC

  Guo leaves Antarctica after more than two months

  

  After more than two months in Antarctica, American pilot and influencer Ethan Guo is finally on his way home. The 19-year-old, who was on a mission to fly solo to all seven continents, was detained by Chilean authorities on June 28 after landing his small plane without proper authorization.

• Thursday, August 14th 2025 - 10:32 UTC

  Antarctica: Pilot clinches plea deal and may leave Chile

  

  After being detained in Antarctica for several weeks, American pilot and teenage influencer Ethan Guo has had the charges against him dropped by a Chilean judge. Guo was originally accused of providing a false flight plan and landing his plane without authorization on a Chilean-claimed territory in Antarctica.

• Tuesday, August 12th 2025 - 06:40 UTC

  Antarctic researcher remains, working for Falklands’ Dependency, 66 years ago, found in receding glacier

  

  The remains of an Antarctic researcher have been discovered by a Polish team among rocks exposed by a receding glacier in Antarctica. They are identified by DNA as those of Dennis ‘Tink’ Bell, a 25 year-old meteorologist who was working for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), the predecessor of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). He died in a crevasse on a glacier at Admiralty Bay on King George Island, situated off the Antarctic Peninsula on 26 July 1959. His body was never recovered.

• Saturday, August 9th 2025 - 09:55 UTC

  Chilean Antarctica: 19-year-old American pilot committed no crime, his defense argues

  

  Ethan Guo, a 19-year-old American pilot who was detained in Antarctica for over a month, is seeking to have his case dismissed. His lawyer, Jaime Barrientos, argues that Guo did not violate any rules and that his arrest was based on “partial information” from the General Directorate of Civil Aviation (DGAC).

• Tuesday, August 5th 2025 - 08:32 UTC

  South Georgia, forty year old Antarctica iceberg breaking up and drifting north

  

  Almost four decades after breaking from Antarctica’s Filchner Ice Shelf, a still massive iceberg is showing its age. The berg, named A-23A, is shedding large chunks of ice as it drifts in the southern South Atlantic Ocean, about 2,400 kilometers north of its birthplace.