Antarctica

• Wednesday, July 9th 2025 - 10:47 UTC

  US pilot must pay for departure from Antarctica after unauthorized landing

  

  The Chilean government has ruled out covering the transportation costs of 19-year-old American pilot and influencer Ethan Guo, who remains under a travel ban in Antarctica after landing without authorization. Defense Minister Adriana Delpiano explained that while “there is no impediment” for him to leave the white continent on a private flight, Guo himself must cover the cost through a private aviation company.

• Tuesday, July 8th 2025 - 07:01 UTC

  South Georgia Island, call for Expressions of Interest for Provision Biosecurity Services

  

  In October 2025 approximately 250 m3 / eight 20ft shipping containers of building materials and vehicles will be shipped to South Georgia as part of a project run by the South Georgia Heritage Trust (SGHT) to stabilize the managers villa at Stromness.

• Tuesday, July 8th 2025 - 06:48 UTC

  Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust Unveils World-First Shipwreck Experience at Goodwood Festival of Speed

  

  The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust (FMHT) is proud to bring one of the most extraordinary deep-sea discoveries of our time to the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed. As part of the prestigious Future Labs installation, FMHT will showcase the pioneering technology behind the historic mission that located Sir Ernest Shackleton’s legendary ship, Endurance, beneath Antarctica’s frozen Weddell Sea.

• Sunday, July 6th 2025 - 11:45 UTC

  As more and more tourists flock to Antarctica: a visitors’ tax and a numbers’ system cap

  

  By Daria Hatton MacDonald , University of Tasmania And Elizabeth Leane, University of Tasmania - The number of tourists heading to Antarctica has been skyrocketing. From fewer than 8,000 a year about three decades ago, nearly 125,000 tourists flocked to the icy continent in 2023–24. The trend is likely to continue in the long term.

• Friday, July 4th 2025 - 23:26 UTC

  Fundraising teen pilot detained in Chilean Antarctica

  

  Ethan Guo, a 19-year-old pilot and social media influencer, has been detained on King George Island, Antarctica, after a failed attempt to complete a solo flight across all seven continents to raise US$1 million for childhood cancer research.

• Wednesday, June 18th 2025 - 05:27 UTC

  Antarctica Emperor penguin population decreasing faster than expected, satellite imagery

  

  Antarctica’s emperor penguin population may be decreasing faster than some of the most pessimistic predictions. A new analysis of up-to-date satellite imagery suggests the birds’ numbers declined 22% over a 15-year period (2009 to 2024) in a key sector of the continent – encompassing the Antarctic Peninsula, Weddell Sea and Bellingshausen Sea.

• Saturday, June 14th 2025 - 05:40 UTC

  Ship anchor damaging sea fauna in Antarctica reported

  

  A 2022-2023 study published in Frontiers in Conservation Science provides the first documented evidence of ship anchor damage to Antarctica’s seafloor, revealing severe impacts on fragile marine ecosystems.

• Wednesday, June 11th 2025 - 08:11 UTC

  The plastic legacy has reached profusely to the bottom of the planet

  

  On 5 June, UN World Environment Day, the campaign motto was “Beat Plastic Pollution”, and with very good reasons, we are surrounded by plastic pollution and a report from BAS indicates that at the bottom of the world, where few humans have ever set foot, an unwelcome visitor has arrived. Antarctica – the vast, frozen wilderness of ice and snow – is no longer untouched by humanity’s most persistent pollutant: plastic.

• Tuesday, June 10th 2025 - 08:27 UTC

  Join the British Antarctic Survey at Seawork 2025, Southampton 10/12 June

  

  The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is exhibiting at Europe’s commercial marine and workboat exhibition, Seawork 2025,– and is inviting seafarers, cadets, and maritime professionals to come and discover what it takes to support science at the ends of the Earth.

• Monday, June 9th 2025 - 08:07 UTC

  Sustainable Fisheries at South Georgia MPA

  

  Sue Gregory has worked as the GSGSSI Senior Marine & Fisheries Manager for the past 8 years. Prior to that Sue worked as a fisheries ecologist on the South Georgia Project at the British Antarctic Survey for many years, including overwintering on South Georgia, conducting research surveys and acting as a scientific observer on Southern Ocean commercial fishing vessels In the following GSGGSSI Newsletter, Sue relates her experience.