"The more we know about Earth's icy environments, the better we will be able to understand the other environments," said ...

Researchers have proposed many origins for a gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, but the latest evidence ...

For centuries, the Mercator map – one of the most widely used world maps – has shrunk the African continent, distorting its scale and minimising its global significance. Africa covers 30,37-million ...

Named after Gerardus Mercator, the Flemish geographer who designed the map in the 16th century, that projection shows meridians as parallel lines, which made the picture simple to display on walls and ...

Iran’s president has fired one of his deputies for taking what he described as a “lavish” recreational trip to Antarctica. President Masoud Pezeshkian ordered the removal of Shahram Dabiri ...

Chicago's eastern boundary is formed by Lake Michigan, and the city is divided by the Chicago River into three geographic sections: the North Side, the South Side and the West Side. These sections ...

CREDIT: Alex Ingle / Schmidt Ocean Institute (NewsNation) — An ecosystem in Antarctica may have existed for hundreds of years, researchers learned after an iceberg the size of Chicago broke off the ...

Are you looking for truly unique, challenging and rewarding work? We regularly recruit for roles in Antarctica. There are roles at Casey, Davis and Mawson stations. There are also positions on ...

Australian Region - equator to 50°S, 100°E to 180°E (mercator projection) ...