The Mapping and Geographic Information Centre (MAGIC) at the British Antarctic Survey have produced new maps of the ...

A new detailed map of Antarctica is set to significantly improve predictions of how ice flows and melts in response to climate change, say the scientists behind the project. The map, called ...

What to Know Last week, the BAS released Bedmap3, "the most detailed map yet" of Antarctica's landscape beneath its blanket of ice, a press release about the map said.

A 'vulnerable Antarctica' Scientists said the map revealed that the ice sheet is at greater risk of melting due to the incursion of warm ocean water that’s occurring at the fringes of the ...

Deep Antarctic ice — at the South Pole it’s nearly three kilometres thick — is optically very clear, allowing IceCube’s sensors to pick up a flash 200 metres away. As well, the ice is almost entirely ...

The Antarctic ice sheet, which covers 98% of the continent, averages around 1.2 miles in thickness, with its thickest point reaching nearly 3 miles, the Australian Antarctic Program reports.

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has compiled a detailed topographical map using a wide range of datasets to reveal what lies beneath Antarctica's ice sheet. Bedmap2 builds on a previous ...

This map represents the vision of Ancient Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer, Claudius Ptolemy, who believed the Indian Ocean was landlocked. Writing in his Geographia in the 2nd century ...

Rays of golden light shine on an iceberg as the RCGS Resolute leaves the Antarctic Peninsula, bound for the South Shetland Islands. Antarctica is about as far as you can get from anywhere else. That’s ...

Bedmap3 is the newest map showing what Antarctica will look like without ice. British Antarctic Survey Scientists used data from planes, satellites, ships, and dog sleds to create the map and then ...

The Antarctic continent is a frozen landscape of snow and sleet, but a new map from NASA exposes what the region would look like if all the ice were to disappear. NASA released an animation this week ...