Like many devotees of Antarctica, I remain fascinated by these ... at the other end of Ross Island, about 65 miles away. They were going to man-haul two sledges, 130 miles round trip, through ...

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 ...

Ethan McCormick experienced what he describes as a “paradigm shift” during a memorable month-long trip to one of the world’s ...

Mount Erebus looms over the United States' main research base in Antarctica, McMurdo Station, on Ross Island. Most of the year scientists monitor the volcano remotely, gathering data from ...

The NSF is beginning an operational retreat from Antarctica. Both the aging U.S. facilities and the research itself are ...

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