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Judge blocks imports of some Chilean sea bass from Antarctica in fishing feud at bottom of the world
A federal judge in Florida has blocked the imports of a high-priced Chilean sea bass from protected waters near Antarctica.
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South Georgia Island, 250th Anniversary of British Possession, led by the great navigator James Cook
On the 17th of January 1775, English Captain James Cook landed at Possession Bay in South Georgia Island. While his vessel ... of 71°10'S without sighting Antarctica. It was only on their ...
What we learnt flying over the world's largest iceberg A23a - and why it's not long for this world
Flying over the massive iceberg, it's indistinguishable from the horizon. But as it melts, chunks of ice risk floating towards South Georgia, presenting a problem for some of its penguins, seals and ...
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Watch the world’s largest iceberg run aground near remote island in South Atlantic Ocean
Slightly smaller than Rhode Island, A23a originally ... mass loss of the grounded ice over Antarctica attributed to anthropogenic climate change.” South Georgia Island is a large body of land ...
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‘Abundantly large’ deep-sea creature — ‘all legs’ — found off Antarctica. See it
In the south Atlantic, north of Antarctica, a group of islands is one of the most remote island chains in the world. The ecosystem is home to seamounts, hydrothermal vents, deep-sea trenches and ...
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Russian traveler going to spend several months on island near Antarctica
who is approaching a half of his 200-day voyage from South America to Australia on the Akros rowing boat, is going to live for several months on Smolensk (Livingston) Island near Antarctica ...