Many of us know Antarctica as a land of ice and not much else. But hidden beneath the miles of glaciers and ice sheets lies a landmass that was last exposed 40 million years ago. National Security ...

One of these terra incognita is the land beneath Antarctica’s ice sheets. Buried under kilometres of ice is a fascinating ...

Researchers have proposed many origins for a gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, but the latest evidence ...

Earlier surveys put this in the Astrolabe Basin, in Adélie Land. However ... sense the landscape of the rock bed under Antarctica's ice. Subtracting this topography from the shape and ...

Under the floe it’s exceptionally clear ... Only a few species of seals, penguins, and other birds live in East Antarctica, and no land mammals at all. You might think the seafloor too would ...

British expedition to Antarctica says it has succeeded in establishing a new record - the fastest land crossing of the ... had completed the crossing in under 13 days smashing all previous records.

The Antarctic ice sheet covers about 98% of the continent's land mass, and its ice is estimated to be about 1.2 miles thick. That means that if you ever visited Antarctica and took a step onto it ...