Antarctica

• Saturday, June 11th 2022 - 11:09 UTC

  BAS/South Georgia launch new data portal on one of the world's largest Marine Protected Areas

  

  A new Data Portal was launched on Friday by the British Antarctic Survey and the Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI), which will help to enhance the management of one of the world’s largest Marine Protected Areas (MPAs).

• Saturday, June 11th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  After five years of work, new seafloor map of the Southern Ocean covering 48 million sq Km

  

  A new map of the seafloor of the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica provides the most accurate representation of this vast area to date. The International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean (IBSCO) has taken five years to compile and update this map, which was first published in 2013.

• Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 10:56 UTC

  Argentina switches on new radar to monitor South Atlantic airspace

  

  Argentine Defense Minister Jorge Taiana presided over the entry into operation of an air surveillance and control radar in Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego. The equipment (model RPA -170M) was designed and built entirely in Argentina.

• Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 10:11 UTC

  Across the Atlantic from UK to the Falklands, for a first autonomous marine research vessel

  

  Britain's Plymouth Marine Laboratory has commissioned Plymouth-based M Subs Ltd to design and build the autonomous mono-hulled vessel, supported by funding from the Natural Environment Research Council. The vessel-sub Oceanus is scheduled to make its inaugural voyage from the UK to the Falkland Islands, doing marine research along the way without any crew on board.

• Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:05 UTC

  British Antarctic Survey field season has finished; RRS Sir Attenborough returns to UK after seven months 

  

  RRS Sir David Attenborough departed Rothera Research Station for the final time earlier in May and is now making its way back to the UK, marking the end of the BAS Antarctic summer field season.

• Thursday, May 26th 2022 - 21:28 UTC

  Genes make Antarctica bacteria immune to antibiotics

  

  A team of Chilean scientists doing research in Antarctica has come up with bacteria resistant to antibiotics and other man-developed treatments thanks to information passed on through genes, it was reported.

• Wednesday, May 25th 2022 - 10:13 UTC

  Judge Simmons loves the Falklands; has the largest judicial jurisdiction in the world

  

  “I have always had an interest in the Falkland Islands ever since, as a schoolboy in London in 1982, I watched the Task Force set sail. While the conflict in the Falklands was short, it had a huge impact on the people of the Falkland Islands and their relationship with Argentina,” said Judge Malcolm Simmons, senior judge and Coroner of the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, South Sandwich Islands, and the British Antarctic Territory.

• Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 22:43 UTC

  Alberto Fernández eyes Antarctica for May 25 celebration

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández has announced he would spend the May 25 National Holiday at a school in the Esperanza Base in Antarctica, weather permitting. The move would allow him to skip the traditional religious service at Buenos Aires' cathedral.

• Saturday, May 21st 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Endurance Conquered: A conversation with Mensun Bound, Director of Exploration of the Endurance22 project

  

  By Sean Kingsley for Wreckwatch magazine* – Mensun Bound is a fifth-generation Falkland Islander, born to the sea and its mysteries. By fusing academia with firing the public imagination, he creates buzz after buzz around underwater archaeology. In the 1980s he set up and directed Oxford University MARE, England’s first academic maritime archaeological unit, and in 1994 was appointed the Triton Fellow in Maritime Archaeology at St Peter’s College, Oxford.

• Saturday, May 21st 2022 - 08:55 UTC

  BAS contributing to Antarctica's dynamic mapping and geographic information

  

  The latest British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Antarctic Digital Database (ADD) data will be included in a world leading collection of geographic information. ADD is a compilation of the best available topographic data for Antarctica. It is managed by BAS’ Mapping and Geographic Information Centre (MAGIC) on behalf of The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research and is an essential tool for researchers navigating and understanding Antarctica’s ever changing landscape.