The search for the Endurance will also give scientists a chance to study the pack ice in the Weddell Sea. Sub Sea team retrieves the AUV after a test dive on February 15, 2022. Credit - Endurance22 ...

The team of the Weddell Sea Expedition aimed to locate the Endurance, the ship famously lost to the ice in 1915, during Ernest Shackleton’s attempt to make the first land crossing of the Antarctic.

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Ernest Shackleton's ship the Endurance as it lay locked in the Weddell Sea, where it finally sank in 1915. Getty Images An ambitious expedition to locate explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship ...

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Icefish nests, some guarded, at the bottom of the Antarctic Weddell Sea in February 2021. Photo: Alfred Wegener Institute / PS124 AWI OFOBS team Deep-sea biologists were stunned to find the largest ...

A breeding colony of 60 million fish has been discovered in Antarctica’s ice-covered Weddell Sea – a unique and previously unknown ecosystem that covers an area the size of Malta. The fascinating find ...

Images were captured by the Copernicus Sentinel 1 mission after it calved from the Ronne Ice Shelf in the Weddell Sea, ESA reported. Iceberg calving is the breaking of ice chunks from the edge of a ...

A New Zealand-led international study published today in Global Change Biology, reveals how climate change may impact seals in one of the most remote ocean regions in the world, the Weddell Sea. With ...

The first Weddell seal pups of this year have been born near the Ukrainian research station Vernadsky in Antarctica. Two pups came into the world on Winter Island almost at the same time. Source: ...

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Diversity and Distributions, Vol. 26, No. 10 (October 2020), pp. 1291-1304 (14 pages) Aim: Creating a network of marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean requires extensive knowledge on species’ ...