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Stephen and Eric, who have been together for 20 years, said Antarctica was the "perfect place" to officially tie the knot.

Couple make history in first same-sex marriage on British Antarctic Territory

UK Antarctic Heritage Trust is in search of staff to spend five months in Antarctica running and maintaining the Port Lockroy base as well as counting penguins.

Could you run the world's most remote post office?

Meltwater lake on the Sørsdal Glacier, East Antarctica (Photo Sue Cook, UTAS).jpg

The research involved the study of more than 2,000 satellite images to determine the size and volume of lakes on the surface of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet 

World’s largest ice sheet is being threatened by warm summers, study finds

In eastern Antarctica the average temperature is -53C, but at the end of last week it shot up to -17.7C. 

Scientists stunned by 40C temperature rise in eastern Antarctica

Wayne Auton from Cramlington set off with the Endurance22 team in February, searching for the famous ship 107 years after it sank off the coast of Antarctica.

Northumberland man part of Sir Ernest Shackleton's shipwreck discovery team

Sir Ernest and his crew set out to achieve the first land crossing of Antarctica but Endurance did not reach land and became trapped in dense pack ice.

Shackleton’s Endurance found intact 107 years after sinking off Antarctica

Preet Chandi is now the third fastest woman to trek across Antarctica after travelling 700 miles from the Hercules Inlet to the South Pole in 40 days.

'Polar Preet': Army officer returns to UK after history-making South Pole trek

Preet Chandi, 32, announced on Monday that she had completed the gruelling 700 mile trek in 40 days.

Army officer becomes first woman of colour to ski to South Pole unaccompanied

Steven Carpenter, from Caerphilly, will help to prepare a festive feast for 45 crew members as they conduct climate change research in Antartica.

Welsh cook travels to Antarctica on the Sir David Attenborough ship

The British Antarctic Survey studies air bubbles trapped in ice cores which are hundreds of thousand of years old to solve the mysteries of global warming.

How the ancient ice stored in Cambridge helps to tackle climate change

An enormous iceberg has calved from the western side of the Ronne Ice Shelf, lying in the Weddell Sea, in Antarctica. The iceberg, dubbed A-76, measures around 4320 sq km in size – currently making it the largest berg in the world.



The latest berg snatches first place from the A-23A iceberg (approximately 3880 sq km - 2410 miles - in size) which is also located in the Weddell Se

World's biggest iceberg the 'size of Majorca' breaks off from Antarctica 

Nearly 30 million people have been infected with coronavirus in 188 countries, but the icy world at Earth's South Pole has remained a "safe little bubble", according to one of the British scientists based there.

Earth's last Covid-free continent seeks to keep coronavirus at bay

A woman from Northumberland is heading to Antarctica to swim amongst the ice. 

Swimming in Antarctica: The frozen challenge of a lifetime

The peninsula is among the fastest-warming regions on earth.

Record high temperature of more than 18C recorded for Antarctica

Lewis Pugh swam for more than 10 minutes wearing just trunks, cap and goggles.

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