Tag: antartic

• Monday, October 21st 2013 - 19:33 UTC

  Antarctic scientists address toothfish and icefish stocks and catch limits in Australia

  

  With the attendance of delegations from the twenty five members from the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), the annual gathering of international Antarctic scientists and policy makers took off on Monday in Australia.

• Saturday, May 11th 2013 - 10:26 UTC

  HMS Protector back in Portsmouth after a successful nine-month Antarctica deployment

  

  HMS Protector, the Royal Navy’s Ice Patrol Ship, has returned to Portsmouth at the end of a nine-month deployment to the ‘Frozen Continent’. Operating in the British Antarctic Territory, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands throughout the Austral Summer, the ship conducted three intensive work periods in the ice, and a fourth work period in the waters surrounding South Georgia.

• Tuesday, April 30th 2013 - 09:09 UTC

  Chile considers IAATO meeting a great success; many operators looking to work from Magallanes

  

  The Chilean government efforts to develop Puerto Williams in the extreme south of the country as an austral tourism centre and gateway to Antarctica received an ‘excellent’ feedback from the recent IAATO annual meeting held in Punta Arenas.

• Tuesday, December 18th 2012 - 22:18 UTC

  UK names southern part of British Antarctic Territory “Queen Elizabeth Land”

  

  The Foreign Secretary announced on Tuesday that the southern part of British Antarctic Territory has been named Queen Elizabeth Land.

• Monday, October 15th 2012 - 22:06 UTC

  NASA IceBridge on its fourth edition to study Antarctica’s polar ice changes

  

  Scientists and flight crew members with Operation IceBridge, NASA's airborne mission to study Earth's changing polar ice have started another campaign over Antarctica. Now in its fourth year, IceBridge's return to the Antarctic comes almost a year after the discovery of a large rift in the continent's Pine Island Glacier.

• Wednesday, October 10th 2012 - 19:33 UTC

  BAS merger plan triggers debate; fears of ‘diminished’ British presence in Southern Ocean

  

  UK government plans to merge the British Antarctic Survey with the National Oceanography Centre have triggered global debate among scientists and politicians with former US Vice-president Al Gore wading into the discussion and fears in the Falkland Islands of a diminished “British presence” in the region.

• Tuesday, May 22nd 2012 - 06:21 UTC

  Antarctica tourism rapidly adapting to new environment-friendly rules

  

  An expanded Executive Committee and reorganized Secretariat, new rules of procedure for compliance and dispute resolution issues, and a Marine Committee Safety Advisory were just some of the actions and decisions adopted by Members at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO), held in Providence, Rhode Island earlier this month.

• Monday, April 9th 2012 - 15:40 UTC

  China planning 200m state of the art icebreaker for service in 2014

  

  A new icebreaker is scheduled to join Xuelong, China’s only Antarctic research vessel, in 2014, highlighting Beijing’s ambition for further exploration and scientific study in polar regions.

• Sunday, March 11th 2012 - 14:07 UTC

  Argentine Jubany Station renamed.

  

  At a ceremony held in Government House President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner announced the renaming of the Jubany Scientific Station in Antarctica, now to be known as Carlini Station, in memory of biologist Alejandro Carlini who died in 2010.

• Friday, January 6th 2012 - 07:12 UTC

  “Ninja” patrol vessel joins the annual Antarctic dispute with Japanese whalers

  

  The Sea Shepherd flagship ‘Steve Irwin’ was shadowed by a Japanese security vessel as it escorted the badly damaged Brigitte Bardot to Fremantle for repairs, the anti-whaling group says.