The era of film may be over, taken over by digital photography, but what the New Zealand-based Antarctic Heritage Trust discovered frozen in a block of ice in a hut in Antartica was not, as they first thought, “an...
Deven Stross is a portrait and commercial photographer living and working in Portland, Oregon and Antartica. We were captivated by his photos of the Nacreous Cloud displays over McMurdo Station, Antartica. Nacreous...
Kepa Acero scours the planet via Google Earth to find virgin surf spots in five different seas. His project is called 5 Seas and Antarctica is his fourth destination. In all his trips, he aims to discover the people and...
Scientists doing deep-sea vents research in the Antartic were surprised to find new species of sea creatures (anemones, sea stars, and hairy-chested yeti crabs) in abundance — and unlike those found at deep-sea...
From cwmbro BBC cameramen Hugh Miller and Doug Anderson, filming for the BBC One series Frozen Planet, have captured an unusual phenomenon that plays out under the Antartic sea. Dubbed “Brinicle” or...
Antartica is a hidden world for most of us since it is such a forbidding place with temperatures reaching a low of −89 °C (−129 °F). It is on average the coldest, driest, and windiest continent and is considered a...
