On Oct. 12, 1957, history was made when the first-ever commercial flight to Antarctica departed from San Francisco, carrying 37 passengers to the U.S. Naval facility at McMurdo Sound station. Thirty ...

There's nothing like carrying a pee bottle to remind you of your personal impact on the environment. Staffers with the National Science Foundation's U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) mentioned pee bottles ...

University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka scientists have successfully analysed more than 30 years of vital data on the thickness of landfast sea ice in Antarctica’s McMurdo Sound, which will prove ...

The sea ice in front of New Zealand’s Scott Base breaks apart last week. The station manager reported that open water has not been seen in front of Scott Base since 1998. Ryan Wallace, McMurdo ...

U.S. and Russian icebreakers have cleared a path through the sea ice of McMurdo Sound to allow the annual resupply of McMurdo Station, the National Science Foundation's logistics hub in Antarctica ...

Vol. 82, No. 2/3, Glacial and Paleoclimatic History of the Ross Ice Drainage System of Antarctica (2000), pp. 167-211 (45 pages) Published By: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. A grounded ice sheet fed from the ...

A remnant of the largest iceberg ever recorded is blocking Antarctica’s McMurdo Sound, threatening tens of thousands of penguin chicks with starvation and cutting off a supply route for three science ...

AN Antarctic blizzard was hampering plans to evacuate a critically-ill American from the US base at McMurdo Sound to New Zealand. A New Zealand Air Force Orion was on standby in Christchurch to make a ...