Because the Ross Ice Shelf is easier to reach by sea ... expeditions to the South Pole during the golden age of Antarctic exploration. Shackleton and Scott and Amundsen all began their expeditions ...

"The change of seasons causes surface melting far inland from the coastal ice front," glaciologist Christopher Shuman said.

The biggest iceberg on Earth is heading toward a remote island, creating a potential threat to penguins and seals inhabiting the area.

The world's biggest iceberg — a wall of ice the size of Rhode Island — is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica ... path has been known since Shackleton’s time, he said, referring ...

That is the same current of water that famed explorer Ernest Shackleton used in 1916 ... In January 2023, a massive piece of Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf — a chunk about the size of two New ...

At the margins of the Antarctic ice sheet, glaciers flow into the Southern Ocean, forming floating ice shelves. These ice shelves act as keystones, stabilising the ice sheet. They're also shrinking.

A widespread, record-breaking melting event occurred across the Antarctic throughout December ... along one of the region’s largest ice shelves, indicating that global warming is continuing ...

Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure ... the 28-man crew survived nearly two years in the Antarctic when its ship, the Endurance, was trapped and then crushed by pack ice.