Despite the freezing conditions, Antarctica is home to several volcanoes. There are four volcanoes on Ross Island, although all are inactive except Mount Erebus, which has increased in volcanic activity in the last 30 years. Antarctica Mount Erebus is the worlds most southern active volcano. Mount Erebus is an extreme natural wonder, with liquid magma…
Antarctica is a mysterious place for so many reasons. There is really no shortage of mystic to this very recent found continent. Humanity knowns very little about Antarctica. A place larger than Europe or United States and Mexico combined. Not owned by anybody, not well researched, at least not known to mainstream media and people…
Antarctica in the more modern era does not have an indigenous population (there are no native human Antarcticans). We do not know what populations in ancient times called Antarctica home. So, who lives in Antarctica? The continent was once a part of a larger land mass called Gondwana that settled over the south pole and…
The icebound, snowy wastes of Antarctica remain one of the most hostile environments for terrestrial animals, however our southernmost continent has not always been such a cold, inhospitable landmass. In the past, dinosaurs roamed its lush polar forests and even after the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs, Antarctica continued to remain largely unfrozen for tens…
The researchers aboard the Polarstern research vessel found themselves in the right place at the right time. They were sailing near Antarctica’s northern rim when a giant iceberg broke off the continent. It revealed a long-hidden world of creatures on the seafloor. The iceberg named A74 is about the size of Los Angeles. As it…
Even though it is not exactly sure when this continent was discovered, we have records of Antarctica in modern human times. Antarctica history yet is not that long in modern times. The history of modern human knowledge of this undiscovered place emerges from early Western theories. Stories of a vast continent, known as Terra Australis,…
New Zealand scientists drilling through Antarctic ice discovered an underwater ecosystem. Beneath a thick and unforgiving ice shelf, in massive caverns with extremely high ceilings, are shrimp like creatures. A newly discovered underwater ecosystem that has been ice-locked and full of life. Marine life discovered in Antarctic river. The ecosystem was found more than 1,600…