In January 1774, Captain James Cook’s third and final attempt to sail south in search of the elusive Terra Australis was blocked by impenetrable sea ice. A frustrated Cook left the question of a ...

National Science Foundation-funded scientists working in an ice-free region of Antarctica have discovered the last traces of tundra–in the form of fossilized plants and insects–on the interior of the ...

The Antarctica we see today is a thick, vast, white blanket of ice and snow. But beneath the frozen tundra, there is actually a hidden mountain range. The ancient Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains are ...

Recognizing Antarctic tundra Antarctica remained largely overlooked for another half-century, until it once again became of interest during the International Geophysical Year (IGY), from July 1957 to ...