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Tag: exploration

  • Thursday, December 14th 2017 - 04:30 UTC

    Mt Hope is the tallest mountain in the British Antarctic Territory with 3.239 meters

    The new data reveals Mount Hope as being 55m taller than Mount Jackson and 377m higher than previously thought.

    Britain has a new highest mountain after new data showed measurements from old overland surveys were inaccurate. It was thought until this point that Mount Jackson was the tallest mountain in the British Antarctic Territory at 3,184m above sea level. However, new satellite data by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) shows Mount Hope is the tallest mountain, at 3,239m.

  • Wednesday, July 21st 2010 - 06:59 UTC

    Argentine only has natural gas reserves for the next seven years

    Lack of investment in exploration has been decisive in the current situation according to the Mosconi Institute

    Argentina’ natural gas reserves dropped to half their 2000 level when they totalled 378.862 million cubic metres, which means at the current consumption rate in seven and a half years the country will ran out of the vital fuel, according to a report released this week in Buenos Aires.