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Every year, a few thousand people deploy to live on Antarctic research stations — and go through punishing survival training ...
You may think your commute is brutal, but what does it take to get to your job at the most remote place on Earth?
With US investment in polar science under threat, scientists hope that China’s interest in the region will benefit research.
Bof Architekten constructed India's Bharathi Antarctic Research Station out of 134 individual containers and wrapped them in a durable aluminum skin that can withstand extreme weather conditions.
“Ice Station: The Creation of Halley VI Britain’s Pioneering Antarctic Research Station” (Park) features about 100 interior and exterior photographs by James Morris and an essay by Ruth Slavid.
Antarctic researchers spend months in total darkness and brave -55°C temperatures and winds in excess of 100 mph. Yet these hardy souls endure and thrive at the Halley VI Antarctic Research ...
A new British research station in Antarctica is officially up and running, the British Antarctic Survey announced Monday. Known as the Halley VI Research Station, it is the sixth such base built ...
Just over a century after Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Antarctic expedition came to a tragic close, Britain’s latest and greatest Antarctic Research Station has opened and will become fully ...
The Australian Antarctic Program shared a video on Facebook on Wednesday of the sun going down on June 2 near the Davis research station. "Farewell sunshine!" the post stated .
The British Antarctic Survey’s Halley VI research station will shut down for the second winter in a row due to growing cracks in the ice sheet where it sits, reports Nicola Davis at The Guardian ...