What’s it like to study life in the coldest places on Earth? Femi Anna Thomas knows firsthand In 2015, when Femi Anna Thomas enrolled as a PhD student at the National Centre for Polar ...

Across the South Pole’s frozen expanse, there lives only one purely terrestrial animal: a tiny insect called the Antarctic midge. This flightless creature, just 0.2 inches long, has eked out an ...

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A dozen of them would fit on your fingernail. The greater Antarctic region also encompasses the Southern Ocean and islands south of the 60th parallel. In contrast to the Antarctic continent, the ...

Staff are employed as meteorologists and technical officers. Our roles support the scientific work of the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD). They also contribute to weather, marine and space weather ...

The monthly extent images show the expanse covered by ice at greater than 15 percent monthly mean concentration for the Arctic and Antarctic. The total extent value is given in the bottom margin. It ...

Where no observation is available within the last 75 minutes, the latest observation is shown in italics and coloured and removed from the table after 30 hours. Station names link to data for the ...

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