Operation HighJump commenced in August 1946. It was the largest, most heavily armed naval task force ever sent to Antarctica. Leading the mission was Admiral Richard E Byrd, one of the most famous ...

Nazi Germany, the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR) perceived the continent as military and ideological power for national prestige. The principle of sovereignty has seemed to face erosion in ...

However, these Antarctic ecosystems have been covered ... The international team - comprising scientists from Chile, Germany, Norway, New Zealand, and the US - also used the opportunity to gather ...

Researchers took advantage of a rare chance to explore a new expanse of seafloor exposed by the breakup of an Antarctic ice ...

The newly exposed Antarctic seafloor also allowed the international team, with scientists from Portugal, the United Kingdom, Chile, Germany, Norway, New Zealand, and the United States, to gather ...

A media storm blew up in mid-March 2025 when a researcher at South Africa’s isolated Sanae IV base in Antarctica accused one of its nine team members of becoming violent. The Conversation Africa ...

Scientists at a remote research base in Antarctica have pleaded for their rescue, alleging assault, sexual harassment and death threats from a team member they say is mentally unstable.

According to the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, the continent may be used exclusively for peaceful and scientific purposes. Credit: Andrew Peacock/Getty Images ...

Antarctica was once a lush and thriving land, teeming with prehistoric life. It's hard to believe now, but tucked away, hidden underneath a layer of ice kilometers thick, that ancient landscape still ...

A South African Antarctic researcher has lodged serious ... The nearest research facilities are Germany's Neumayer Station III, about 137 miles away, and Norway's Troll Base, approximately 118 ...