About two-thirds of Antarctic tourists land on the continent. The visitors can threaten fragile ecosystems by: Even when ...

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"Humans have always brought their own interests to Antarctica," he says. The race to the South Pole. In 1911, Roald Amundsen planted the Norwegian flag at the South Pole, where no one had set foot ...

Antarctica, however, doesn’t have an official flag as it is not a sovereign nation. A lot has since changed on the frozen continent, according to Bartram, a vexillologist — an expert in the ...

You may think of Antarctica as a sheet of clean ice covered in pristine snow, largely untouched by humans. That’s how its flag—designed by vexillologist Graham Bartram for an atlas in the ...

The state flag of the Republic of Belarus was unfurled on 20 January 2024 by participants of the groundbreaking 16th Belarusian Antarctic expedition: Aleksei Gaidashov, Vitaly Khilko, Yegor Korzun.

Entrepreneur and adventurer Chun Wang, a private astronaut, shared a video that shows the unmatched beauty of Antarctica from space. Friday, Jun 27, 2025. New Delhi o C. Subscribe. Sign in.

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US President Donald Trump’s massive government cuts are threatening the nation’s leadership at the ends of the Earth, say scientists who work in Antarctica. By presidential directives ...

Antarctica does not have a permanent human population. In the warmer summer months, up to 5,000 scientific researchers are based in Antarctica. This number drops to around 1,000 during the winter ...

As the Northern Hemisphere swelters under a record-breaking summer heat wave, much further south, in the depths of winter, another terrifying climate record is being broken. Antarctic sea ice has ...