Antarctica

• 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.

• Tuesday, January 19th 2010 - 10:47 UTC

  Fourteen cruise vessels call in South Georgia during December

  

  Fourteen cruise ships visited South Georgia Island during December, eight of which visited during the Christmas week from the 23rd to the 29th December, according to the latest release from South Georgia’s News and Events.

• Tuesday, January 19th 2010 - 10:15 UTC

  Icebreaker Almirante Irizar expected to be operation for 2011/2012 season

  

  Argentina expects to have its main icebreaker Almirante Irizar back in sailing conditions by October 2011 and fully operational for the 2011/2012 Antarctic season, according to reports in the Buenos Aires press.

• Monday, January 18th 2010 - 13:31 UTC

  US and NZ share the biggest wind farm in Antarctica

  

  The biggest wind farm in ice covered Antarctica and which can generate enough electricity to power 500 homes, was formally switched on this weekend.