Ross Island When Found 2017 The Waddell Sea might not be one of the deepest ocean locations in the world, but it's often more fascinating. One of the most incredible discoveries in Antarctica came ...

This story appears in the July 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. The scene: a tent on Mount Erebus, an active volcano on Ross Island, Antarctica. The tent is a four-cornered tepee ...

Unseen mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers lie under Antarctica’s mile-thick ice sheet. Changes to those hidden rivers ...

Meet some of Antarctica's iconic species – emperor penguins and Weddell seals – and learn how they use the ice. Just outside ...

Early explorers skimmed the boundaries of Antarctica in daring sea voyages ... the goal of geographical exploration from a base on Ross Island in the Ross Sea. In 1902, Scott, Dr. Edward Wilson ...