Antarctica

• Saturday, February 27th 2010 - 00:42 UTC

  Iceberg size of Luxembourg knocks loose and could disrupt weather patterns

  

  An iceberg the size of Luxembourg knocked loose from the Antarctic continent earlier this month could disrupt the ocean currents driving weather patterns around the globe, researchers said on Friday.

• Monday, February 22nd 2010 - 23:53 UTC

  Germans record underwater massive iceberg crash into Antarctic ice-shelf

  

  German oceanographers in Antarctica used underwater microphones this month to listen in on a massive iceberg crashing into the Antarctic ice-shelf, which cause a 2 000- metre crack, the ice lab headquarters said on Monday.

• Tuesday, February 16th 2010 - 02:02 UTC

  Shackleton “Quest” cabin, new show piece for South Georgia Museum

  

  The cabin in which British polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton died aboard his ship “Quest” looks set to become an important new artefact at the South Georgia Museum.

• Monday, February 15th 2010 - 06:38 UTC

  Chile announce ambitious Antarctica Strategic Plan

  

  Chile’s Public Works Ministry announced the launching of five new projects in Antarctica.

• Saturday, February 13th 2010 - 07:37 UTC

  Thirteen cruise vessels visit South Georgia during January

  

  Thirteen cruise ships visited this month South Georgia, according to the SG Newsletter. This included a vessel new to SG, the 112 passenger “Plancius”. However one vessel, l “Clelia II” had to cancel her visit after striking rocks with her propeller at Petermann Island in the Antarctic Peninsula.

• Thursday, February 11th 2010 - 03:00 UTC

  The Commissioner and Foreign Office official tour South Georgia

  

  Commissioner Alan Huckle and his wife Helen visited South Georgia in January. Travelling with them was Jane Rumble, Head of the Polar Regions Unit at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and GSGSSI Senior Executive Officer Martin Collins, reports the January edition of the S.G. Newsletter.

• Monday, February 8th 2010 - 20:29 UTC

  Bid to sell the Falkland Islands as gateway to Antarctica

  

  Informal talks began this week on a proposal to market the Falkland Islands to tourists as the “Gateway to Antarctica”, according to a report from the Penguin News latest edition.

• Saturday, February 6th 2010 - 11:49 UTC

  Whaler, activist ship collide again off Antarctica

  

  Anti-whaling activists have described how Japanese whaling ships circled their protest vessel “like sharks” before ramming it off Antarctica.

• Saturday, February 6th 2010 - 08:53 UTC

  Shackleton Antarctic gift for whisky lovers': century old recipe

  

  Five crates of a century-old lost whisky belonging to Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton have been recovered by conservators. Three crates of the Mackinlay whisky, and a further two crates of brandy, were discovered beneath the hut, and used by Shackleton to launch his journey to the South Pole.

• Saturday, January 30th 2010 - 14:31 UTC

  Russia and Antarctica

  

  A historic discovery was made on January 28, 1820. A Russian navy expedition under the command of Faddei Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev sighted the last of the remaining unexplored continents - Antarctica.