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2 days ago · “This is the highest temperature recorded in July at the German Antarctic Neumayer Station since continuous observations began in 1982. This means that it has never been so warm there in the middle of the polar night, the peak of the Antarctic winter,” explains Radenz. These unusually high temperatures led to supercooled drizzle.
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4 days ago · History of the Ozone Hole. Throughout the 20th century, discoveries and observations trickled in that would allow scientists to understand how human-made chemicals like chlorofluorocarbons create a hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica each spring.
22 hours ago · The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, [ 1 ][ note 4 ] comprises the southernmost waters of the world ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica. [ 5 ] With a size of 20,327,000 km 2 (7,848,000 sq mi), it is the second-smallest of the five principal oceanic divisions, smaller than the Pacific ...
1 day ago · His 1829 expedition to Russia supplied him with data comparative to his Latin American expedition. [159] The first two volumes of the Kosmos were published between the years 1845 and 1847 and were intended to comprise the entire work, but Humboldt published three more volumes, one of which was posthumous. Humboldt had long aimed to write a ...
1 day ago · Juan Sebastián Elcano (c.1486–1526) took command after Ferdinand's death and completed the voyage, becoming the first person (along with 17 other crewmates) to circumnavigate the Earth.
4 days ago · Ponant's Le Commandant Charcot notches a world-first. Expedition Cruising. Ports & Destinations. Ponant claimed a world-first for Le Commandant Charcot after the icebreaker reached the North Pole of Inaccessibility — one of the most elusive and remote points on Earth.
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1 day ago · Early penetration of this Southern Ocean in the search for fur seals led in 1820 to the discovery of the continent. Icebreakers and aircraft now make access relatively easy, although still not without hazard in inclement conditions.
