After two seemingly long days at sea, I finally spotted birds flying near by the ship and my first icebergs came into view ... the Antarctic Peninsula. They contain 11 islands and are full ...

A team of international scientists has created a map revealing Antarctica's topography beneath ... "The map gives us a clear view of the white continent as if its 27 million cubic km of ice ...

In the eyes of glaciologist Éric Rignot, from a scientific point of view Antarctica is "the most important place on the planet". The Antarctic ice sheet is the largest single mass of continental ...