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The largest of the Danger Islands lying 11 nautical miles (20 km; 13 mi) east-southeast of the east tip of Joinville Island, off the northeast end of Antarctic Peninsula. Discovered in 1842 by a British expedition under James Clark Ross, and named by him for Charles Darwin, noted naturalist. [8]
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A speculative representation of Antarctica labelled as ' Terra Australis Incognita ' on Jan Janssonius's Zeekaart van het Zuidpoolgebied (1657), Het Scheepvaartmuseum The name given to the continent originates from the word antarctic, which comes from Middle French antartique or antarctique ('opposite to the Arctic') and, in turn, the Latin antarcticus ('opposite to the north').
These two species live on the seafloor 100–3,000 metres (328–9,843 ft) deep, and can grow to around 2 metres (7 ft) long weighing up to 100 kilograms (220 lb), living up to 45 years. The Antarctic toothfish lives close to the Antarctic mainland, whereas the Patagonian toothfish lives in the relatively warmer subantarctic waters.
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Similar to its predecessor, the Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA), IceCube consists of spherical optical sensors called Digital Optical Modules (DOMs), each with a photomultiplier tube (PMT) [4] and a single-board data acquisition computer which sends digital data to the counting house on the surface above the array. [1]