Antarctica

• Monday, April 9th 2012 - 05:34 UTC

  Brazilian yacht sinks crushed by Antarctic ice close to Chilean base

  

  The Chilean Navy on Sunday released images of the Brazilian Yacht ‘Endless Sea’ which sank on Saturday in Antarctica. The photo shows the boat stuck in ice at Maxwell Bay, Ardley Cove, in front of the Chilean Antarctic base Presidente Eduardo Frei, reported Brazilian online media.

• Saturday, April 7th 2012 - 06:53 UTC

  Russian yacht goes missing in Antarctica en route to South Shetlands

  

  The Scorpius yacht with a Russian-Ukrainian crew on board has gone missing off the Antarctic coast while performing a polar circumnavigation voyage, the expedition’s press service said on Friday.

• Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 22:42 UTC

  Larsen Ice Shelf continues retreating

  

  A European satellite has reported rapid ice shelf disintegration in Antarctica’s Larsen Ice Shelf according to a news story posted yesterday on the European Space Agency’s (ESA) website, http://www.esa.int

• Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 22:32 UTC

  Antarctic: Dutch laboratories arrive at Rothera Station

  

  As part of an international collaboration between British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the Netherlands Polar Programme (NPP), three new containerised laboratories arrived at Rothera Research Station in Antarctica earlier this week, according to a news story posted yesterday on the BAS website: http://www.antarctica.ac.uk.

• Wednesday, March 28th 2012 - 17:14 UTC

  US retailers stop selling Antarctic toothfish

  

  Three major US retailers announced that they have pledged not to stock endangered Antarctic toothfish. According to an article published by the environmental science and conservation news site, mongabay.com, Safeways, Wegmans and Harris Teeter have announced that they will not source fish coming from the Ross Sea.

• Monday, March 26th 2012 - 14:07 UTC

  Campaign for Antarctic Marine Reserve launched

  

  The Antarctic Ocean Alliance, a coalition of 16 environmental groups, has launched a campaign calling for the full protection of 3.6 million square kilometres of the Ross Sea, as well as the creation of the 18 more reserves in the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica.

• Sunday, March 25th 2012 - 10:17 UTC

  Expedition will try to recreate 1916 Shackleton epic in replica of the James Caird

  

  Two Royal Navy servicemen, Warrant Officer Barry 'Baz' Gray of the Royal Marines and Royal Naval Petty Officer Seb Coulthard will form part of a crew of Antarctic adventurers recreating Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1916 epic and extraordinary double mission.

• Monday, March 19th 2012 - 14:42 UTC

  HMS Protector dares ice pack to pick up scientists in remote Antarctic island

  

  The Royal Navy’s Antarctic patrol ship HMS Protector had to punch her way through ice to first deliver, then pick up a team of scientists as the pack ice threatened to trap them – and the ship.

• Sunday, March 18th 2012 - 19:50 UTC

  HMS Illustrious, command ship in tough Arctic weather training

  

  Royal Navy helicopter carrier HMS Illustrious is in the midst of NATO Exercise Cold Response, based in the Arctic. Illustrious is the command ship for Major General Ed Davis, Commandant General Royal Marines, who, with his Commander Amphibious Forces staff, is directing the movements of allied warships.

• Wednesday, March 14th 2012 - 01:54 UTC

  Heroic Age remembered in Punta Arenas

  

  Three plaques remembering prominent explorers of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Discovery, who used the Chilean port of Punta Arenas as their home base when carrying out Antarctic explorations, have been unveiled at the entrance to the Arturo Prat port terminal in downtown Punta Arenas.