antarctica

Long awaited very exciting finding - if it holds. Nature News: Lake-drilling team discovers life under the ice Host of microbes found in lake deep under Antarctica's ice sheet. [and pardon for the typo in the headline... maybe friendly neighborhood moderator could help?]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/2010/02/100226_iceberg_wt_sl.shtml

Yeah, I can imagine how embarrassing it must be for an Antarctic researcher to walk into the CVS pharmacy near the south pole and have to buy condoms: "Hey, Janet, this guy wants to buy a package of Trojan XTra Loob Ribbed condoms, but the register isn't scanning it. What do I do?" "What...

Well I know a couple of co-workers are out at sea sailing near Antarctica on the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer. Here's a link to the main page to find out details about the research cruise: http://censeam.niwa.co.nz/outreach/nathaniel_b._palmer and it turns out they are posting a blog of sorts so...

From: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/antarctica-20080123.html

From; http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17838

I just got me a new DTRAM atlas. (Dead Tree Random Access Memory, or book.) It's an atlas of Norway and I started to think, any other national atlases have maps of Antarctica in them? Along with Chile, Argentina, the UK, Australia, NZ and France, we're the only ones who've stated a claim on...