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Robertson Land (red), Australian Antarctic Territory in Antarctica. Mac. Robertson Land is the portion of Antarctica lying southward of the coast between William Scoresby Bay and Cape Darnley. It is located at . In the east, Mac. Robertson Land includes the Prince Charles Mountains.
The geodesic dome on the ridge houses Antarctica New Zealand's satellite communication system. The initial Aurora radar and hut, 1959. Arrival Heights Laboratory is a research station in the Antarctic Specially Protected Area of Arrival Heights in Antarctica, around 2 km from McMurdo Station.
Arrival Heights are clifflike heights which extend in a north-east–south-west direction along the west side of Hut Point Peninsula, just north of Hut Point in Ross Island, Antarctica. They were discovered and named by the British National Antarctic Expedition , 1901–04, under Robert Falcon Scott .
Druzhnaya I was established in 1975 as seasonal field camps on the Filchner Ice Shelf to carry out topographic and geodetic mapping of the local area. [4]In 1986, satellite images revealed ice breakup near Druzhnaya I.
A vital glacier in western Antarctica appears to be smoking in a rare view captured by a NASA satellite earlier this month.
Parts of icy Antarctica are turning green with plant life as the region is gripped by extreme heat events, new research shows, sparking concerns about the changing landscape on this vast continent.
In Antarctica, Google Street View is available on selected locations. [1] Views of Half Moon Island in the South Shetland Islands, were added September 2010. [2] Ceremonial South Pole, Shackleton's Hut, Discovery Hut, added July 2012. Cape Royds, Castle Rock Loop Trail, WISSARD Test Site, Arena Valley, Lake Bonney, McMurdo Station, Taylor ...
Between 1997 and 1999 the international Cape Roberts Project (CRP) has recovered up to 1,000 m (3,300 ft) long drill cores in the Ross Sea, Antarctica, to reconstruct the glaciation history of Antarctica. Scientists from various institutes in seven countries have participated: Australia, Germany, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Italy, New ...