But the first person to explore South Georgia in detail was Cook. He mapped this piece of land and named it after his own king, George. This navigator officially declared that the island belonged to ...

Setting foot on King George Island, the largest of the South Shetland Islands—75 miles off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula—took nine days, 22 hours, and 57 minutes.

Vegetation in Barton Peninsula, King George Island We met Marina Bowen, an Ecology, Evolution and Conservation MRes student who travelled to the Antarctic for a field trip of a lifetime. Marina ...

EXCLUSIVE: Former UFC Middleweight champion turned actor Michael Bisping (Red Sonja) and George Finn (Time Lapse) have signed on to star in Atlas King, a feature from filmmaker Nika Agiashvili ...

He recounted that in 2023, Boric accompanied UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres to King George Island, 120km off the coast of Antarctica, where there is a Chilean air base.

From there, the Colombian personnel flew to King George Island aboard a Hercules C-130 aircraft operated by the Chilean Air Force. Other assets used recently by the Chilean Air Force include de ...

That map is then used for charting or to help geologists understand what the sea floor is made of and what it looks like. Wilcox said only about 25 per cent of the world's ocean floor is mapped.

Antarctica is like no place on Earth. The "White Continent" has lured explorers and scientists to its stunning, ice-encrusted landscape for two centuries. Countries have tried to carve up ...

Antarctica is like no place on Earth. The "White Continent" has lured explorers and scientists to its stunning, ice-encrusted landscape for two centuries. Countries have tried to carve up Antarctica ...

In mid-December, a flag was raised in honor of Priit Tisler in Queen Maud Land. Meanwhile, nearly 2,000 kilometers to the west, on King George Island, people only began sewing an Estonian flag in ...

Canadian officials detailed that the HMCS Margaret Brooke plans to visit Chile’s Antarctic base and maintain ongoing exchanges with Argentina’s bases. The Margaret Brooke will operate in the area of ...

We investigate the plant composition in the Skuas nest at Hennequin Point, located in the Admiralty Bay Area, King George Island, Antarctica. Sample of 61 activity nests were analyzed. 21 plant and ...