Antarctica

• Wednesday, January 7th 2009 - 20:00 UTC

  Monaco's Prince begins month long visit to Antarctica

  

  Monaco's Prince Albert II spent the first two days of his month-long global warming awareness expedition to Antarctica visiting different country bases in King George Island. On Wednesday he's scheduled to fly over the area and return to Punta Arenas in the extreme south of Chile.

• Wednesday, January 7th 2009 - 20:00 UTC

  Inquiry into Ice Patrol HMS Endurance accident

  

  The Portsmouth press carried a piece on the odyssey of Ice patrol HMS Endurance, now resting safely in the Falkland Islands, while a team of naval and civilian personnel is completing a full survey of the damage suffered.

• Wednesday, January 7th 2009 - 20:00 UTC

  Capsized yachtsman rescued by fellow competitor in C. Horn

  

  The French navigator whose yacht capsized in the extreme South Pacific during the Vendée Globe solo round-the-world race was rescued Tuesday night by his friend, a fellow competitor, after he was trapped inside the hull of his upturned boat in heavy seas for 16 hours

• Wednesday, December 31st 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  HMS Endurance is being towed to the Falklands

  The Royal Navy ice patrol HMS Endurance left Punta Arenas, in the extreme south of Chile, midday Tuesday for the Falkland Islands pulled by two tugs, according to reports from the local reports.

• Sunday, December 28th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  HMS Endurance KO; she will be towed back to Britain

  

  The Royal Navy ice patrol HMS Endurance, --and familiar sight in the Falkland Islands--, currently under repairs in Punta Arenas, extreme south of Chile after having suffered severe damages in the engine room, should be ready to be towed back to England sometime next week, according to the local press.

• Saturday, December 20th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  UK team en route to Antarctica for South Pole race

  British television presenter Ben Fogle and UK Olympic rowing champion James Cracknell are due to arrive in Antarctica ahead of a gruelling South Pole race. Cracknell, 36, Fogle, 35, and 28-year-old Dr Ed Coats - who beat 650 applicants for his place on the team - will spend the next fortnight acclimatising to the harsh weather and terrain.

• Saturday, December 20th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  HMS Endurance, while adrift was in serious risk of grounding

  

  Early Friday the stranded Royal Navy's Ice Patrol HMS Endurance with its 113 crew and a translator arrived in Punta Arenas pulled by two Chilean tugs. She has already been docked at the Asmar ship yard where Chilean and British engineers will immediately begin with emergency repairs.

• Thursday, December 18th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Patagonia unveils it was the land of a giant, vicious raptor

  

  Scientists have discovered what they say is a completely unexpected new giant dinosaur that lived 70 million years ago in Argentina. At 5 to 6.5 meters long, depending on its tail size, Austroraptor cabazai is among the largest of the slender, carnivorous, two-legged dinosaurs called raptors, said Fernando Novas, the lead researcher behind the discovery.

• Wednesday, December 17th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Engine room flood on Falklands ship Endurance

  

  BRITISH Royal Navy Patrol Ship HMS Endurance has suffered an engine room flood off the coast of Chile.

• Tuesday, December 16th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  2008, tenth warmest year on record since 1850, says WMO

  

  The year 2008 is likely to rank as the 10th warmest year on record since the beginning of the instrumental climate records in 1850, according to data sources compiled by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).