Cruise
Antarctica
Past Climate Of Northern Antarctic Peninsular
Informs Global Warming Debate
The seriousness of current global
warming is underlined by a reconstruction of climate at
Maxwell Bay in the South Shetland Islands of the Antarctic
Peninsula over approximately the last 14,000 years, which
appears to show that the current warming and widespread loss
of glacial ice are unprecedented.
Nov 6th 2009
Illegal toothfish gillnet found off Antarctica
A destructive
130-kilometre long gillnet has been found deep in the ocean
off Antarctica, bulging with 29 tonnes of Antarctic
toothfish and a significant bycatch of skates.
6th Nov 2009
Rare whale gathering sighted
A large group of a rarely
sighted, mysterious species of whale has been seen off the
coast of Antarctica. Approximately 60 Arnoux's beaked whales
were seen and photographed frolicking on the surface in the
Gerlache Strait.
4th Nov 2009
