The most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet has been ... Big knowledge gaps have been filled by ...

Antarctica is a desert - but it's not hot, it's really, really cold. It's called a desert because it hardly ever rains . The South Pole is near the middle of Antarctica.

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than 60 years' worth of data from satellites, ships and dog-drawn sleds.

As the name of the map implies, this is the third effort to illustrate Antarctica’s rock bed. The project began in 2001, but the researchers involved say the new map represents a dramatic ...

You may know that the South Pole sits on solid land and the North Pole is but a spot in the Arctic Ocean, but it’s probably difficult to imagine either pole as anything but a giant sheet of ice ...

After Watching. Antarctica. Locate Antarctica on globes, digital maps and atlases and find the South Pole. Do a virtual visit using Google Earth and research images of the Geographical South Pole.