Antarctica

• Thursday, February 21st 2013 - 05:46 UTC

  Royal penguin being cared in New Zealand after stranding 2.000km from Antarctica

  

  A royal penguin is being cared for at a New Zealand zoo after being found stranded on a beach 2,000km from its Antarctic home. The young male bird, which was dehydrated and starving, is thought to be only the fourth royal penguin to wash up there in more than a century.

• Saturday, February 16th 2013 - 20:25 UTC

  Argentina supplies Antarctic base by air with contracted Russian aircraft

  

  The Argentine Ministry of Defence announced it had successfully finished the supply of provisions to the Antarctic Base Belgrano II, the most austral of the country’s outposts. The two-week operation in nine legs, depending on weather conditions, was done by air parachuting provisions.

• Wednesday, February 13th 2013 - 20:43 UTC

  Dr. Kim Crosbie named Executive Director of Antarctic tour operators

  

  The International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO) announced on Wednesday a restructuring of its Secretariat, re-establishing the post of Executive Director, with Dr. Kim Crosbie named to the position.

• Monday, February 11th 2013 - 21:18 UTC

  Australian/UK team complete re-enactment of Shakleton’s epic Antarctic expedition

  

  Nearly 100 years after Sir Ernest Shackleton’s legendary Antarctic survival journey, a team of British and Australian explorers have completed their expedition to recreate it. Team leader Tim Jarvis and climber Barry Gray arrived at the Stromness whaling station in South Georgia on Sunday, despite extreme weather over the weekend that had put the expedition in jeopardy.

• Tuesday, February 5th 2013 - 01:10 UTC

  A repeat of Shackleton’s epic Southern Ocean crossing reaches South Georgia

  

  An expedition replicating Ernest Shackleton's 1916 perilous crossing of the Southern Ocean from Antarctica in a small boat has made landfall after a 12-day journey. Led by renowned adventurer Tim Jarvis, the team of six reached Peggotty Bluff on rugged South Georgia, where they landed their vessel in the same place Shackleton and his men beached the James Caird nearly 100 years ago.

• Thursday, January 31st 2013 - 07:32 UTC

  Research confirms Canadian plane crash in Antarctica kills all three aboard

  

  A frustrating four-day search-and-rescue operation for a small plane that crashed in a remote part of Antarctica has come to an end with the location of the wreckage site and the confirmation that all three crew members perished in the crash.

• Monday, January 28th 2013 - 19:56 UTC

  US team extracts samples from sub-glacial Antarctica lake 800 metres in deep ice

  

  In a first-of-its-kind feat of science and engineering, a US National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded research team has successfully drilled through 800 meters of Antarctic ice to reach a sub-glacial lake and retrieve water and sediment samples that have been isolated from direct contact with the atmosphere for many thousands of years.

• Sunday, January 27th 2013 - 02:03 UTC

  With Argentine navy’ honour lying on her side, Minister Puricelli could be next official removed

  

  The Argentine government has removed two top naval officers from their duties following the sinking, this week at her moorings pier-side of the destroyer “Santisima Trinidad” once the flagship of the service and which was actively involved in the invasion of the Falklands in 1982.

• Thursday, January 24th 2013 - 08:00 UTC

  Adelie penguins filmed in underwater hunting skills with miniature video cameras

  

  Miniature cameras attached to a penguin's head have given Japanese scientists a bird's eye view of the creature's incredible underwater hunting skills. Using video cameras weighing just 33 grams and equipped with accelerometers, depth gauges and thermometers, researchers were able to see exactly what the Adelie penguin sees when it goes out to catch krill and other prey in its native Antarctica.

• Thursday, January 24th 2013 - 05:26 UTC

  Explorers visit newly discovered 9.000-strong colony of Emperor penguins in Antarctica

  

  Three members of Belgium’s Princess Elisabeth Antarctica team became the first humans to have visited and photographed a newly-discovered 9.000-strong colony of emperor penguins on Antarctica’s Princess Ragnhild Coast.