Mario's Cyberspace Station: Antarctica

You'd see my applet if you had a Java-capable browser.

US Army Engineers Corps - Cold Region Research Laboratory

New
South Pole
Times

Three weeks in Antarctica

CBS News crew [correspondent Jerry Bowen, cameraman Brian Nolan, soundman John Weiser, and myself, producer Bruce Rheins] certainly didn't have it as tough as him or the others who first saw this huge—one-and-a-half times the size of the U.S.—and unforgiving continent. But getting here cannot be taken for granted.

V X E - 6
Antarctic Development Squadron Six

Home page of "Ice Pirates", the world's southernmost airline!
Antarctic Development Squadron Six (VXE-6) operates on the harsh Antarctic Continent as the United States Navy's only squadron directly supporting the mission of polar research and scientific programs of the National Science Foundation. They deploy every year for winter flight operations in August and for Operation DEEP FREEZE from October to February. VXE-6 operates 7 LC-130 "Hercules" transport aircraft and 6 HH-1N "Huey" helicopters flying to most parts of Antarctica. The ski-equipped LC-130s move large amounts of cargo, personnel and fuel throughout the continent while the HH-1Ns operate in the local McMurdo area and in different field camp detachments and stations.
During the summer training cycle from March to September, the squadron, manned by over 400 highly trained personnel, is based at Naval Air Weapons Station, Point Mugu, California.

GATEWAY TO ANTARCTICA
- International Center for Antarctica Information and Research (ICAIR)
"Located within the International Antarctic Centre in Christchurch, New Zealand, the International Centre for Antarctic Information and Research (ICAIR) is a newly-established, independent, non-profit organisation established under New Zealand's Science Academy, The Royal Society of New Zealand."

ICAIR's List

VIRTUAL ANTARCTICA
"Welcome to TerraQuest, and our pilot expedition to Virtual Antarctica."

Antarctic Support Associates
Page under construction

Alfred Wegener Institute
the German national centre for Polar and Marine research

Polar Biology This electronic version of the print journal (ISSN 1432-2056) of the same name is published on the web by Springer-Verlag Berlin. It presents results of all kinds of studies in plants, animals, and micro-organisms of marine, limnic and terrestrial habitats of arctic and antarctic regions.
Life history, Ecology of organisms and communities, Morphology and taxonomy Distribution, abundance and biogeography, Dynamics of populations Physiology of growth, metabolism and reproduction, Behaviour and sensory physiology Ecosystem studies
Articles are published in Adobe Acrobat portable document format and are available to subscribers using a password provided by the publisher. No password is required to view the article abstracts, which are published in html format.

For subscription and other information contact Managing Editor: G. Hempel

AMANDA
the neutrino telescope project at the South Pole
Arctic World
a server providing information about the Arctic and Antarctic
Antarctica Meteorology Research Center
. Composite satellite weather images

Antarctic Research Center
at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zaeland
Antarctic Streams Hydrology
Antarctic Support Associates

Australian Antarctic Program Online
managed by the Australian Antarctic Division of the Department of the Environment. The Division supports Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) and administers the Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT) and the subantarctic Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands. It also conducts its own Antarctic science programs.

Aurora Australis Update

Science area

Links and other info

Research applications.

Details of Individual Science Programs

Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Australian Antarctic Division

Australian Antarctic Stations

This is the most recent image of
the AASTO at the US South Pole Station
Live image updated every 10 minutes.
(The time shown is New Zealand summer time)

UNSW - ANU - CARA

Stations operating all year round:

Casey (66º 17'S, 110º 31'E)

Mawson (67º 36'S, 62º 53'E)

Davis (68º 35'S, 77º 58'E)

Macquarie Island (54º 29'S, 158º 56'E)
Summer operations:

Heard Island (53º 06'S, 73º 43'E) Spit Bay

Commonwealth Bay (66º 59'S,142º 39'E) Cape Denison, George V Land

Edgeworth David (66º 15'S,100º 36'E)

Bunger Hills Law (69º 23'S, 76º 22'E) Larsemann Hills

Dovers (70º 13'S, 65º52'E) Prince Charles Mountains
The Davis, Casey and Mawson station webcams are operated by Scott Anderson(webcam-macca@antdiv.gov.au) at Kingston, Tasmania and others at the Station.

Map of Antarctica.

Living inAntarctica

AntarcticSeparation

Australian Antarctic Cooperative Research Center

Arctic Region Supercomputing Centre

Australian Working Group for Antarctic Astronomy

Belgium Antarctic Research Programme

BIBSYS

British Antarctic Survey

Byrd Polar Research Center
at Ohio State University

Chilean Antarctic Institute

Cold Tech
a foundation to support research within cold climate technology

CRC
Cooperative Research Centre for the Antarctic
and Southern Ocean Environment University of Tasmania, Australia

DMSP
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Data Archive at NGDC

ICESS
Institute for Computational Earth System Science (ICESS)
University of California, Santa Barbara (researchers at Palmer Station)

Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies

International Arctic Environmental Data Directory

Italian Antarctic Program

Italian Antarctic Program Library

Italian System for Antarctic Data Exchange

Long Duration Ballooning in Antarctica

Long Term Ecological Research

Malin's Antarctic Research.
Antarctic images by Malin Space Science Systems Inc.

All of the material here was captured by M.C. Malin during his fieldwork at McMurdo and environs in December 1993 and January 1994. These two MPEG segments were sent by Dr. Malin shortly after he and his assistant M. Ravine arrived in Antarctica. The first (1.6 Mbytes) shows their arrival and visit to the first sample site via helicopter; the second (1.7 Mbytes) shows their work at that site and return. These pages contain various still images and video clips sent back from McMurdo during the 1993-1994 mission.
Antarctic Images set 1
Antarctic Images set 2
Antarctic Images set 3

This website is maintained by

Mike Caplinger (mc@msss.com)

Norsk Polarinstitutt

NSF WWW server
including the Office of Polar Programs

National Snow and Ice Data Center

The New South Polar Times
published in New Zealand

Polar Libraries Gopher
maintained by Eric Tull, University of Calgary

Polar Science Center
Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington

Potchefstroom University
Physics Department, South Africa
South African National Antarctic Programme

Three bases have been built on Queen Maud land, all of which have since been decommissioned due to snow build up. In order to circumvent the accumulation of snow and consequent deterioration of the base, it was decided to build the new base, SANAE IV, on a rock outcrop (nunatuk) called Vesleskarvet. Scientific studies into upper air-, ionospheric- and magnetospheric physics are conducted by teams from the Universities of Potchefstroom and Natal (Durban).
The Directorate Antarctica and Islands of the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism is responsible for all logistical support. This includes the transport of personnel and goods to Antarctica as well as the provision of the base. The Public Works Department (PWD) is responsible for building and maintenance of the base itself.

Neutron Monitors
Magnetometer
HF Radar
Riometers
1994 / 95 Trip New South African Antarctic Base
Having fun
SANAE IV Photos
International Antarctic Home Page

SANAE
South African National Antarctic Expedition

Scott Polar Research Institute

USCGC Polar Sea

World Data Centre, C (Glaciology)

Antarctic entry in the CIA World Fact Book

The Antarctic Treaty of 1959

Protocol on Environmental Protection
to the Antarctic Treaty (1991)

Lee Liming's List.