网站简介:Provides general weather overview with facts, research data and pictures.
网站简介:Organisation and realisation of tours and expeditions to polar and subpolar regions (Greenland, Svalbard, Kamchatka, Patagonia, Antarctica). Includes photo galleries, organisation information, and program details.
网站简介:Compilation of Antarctic related articles. Includes information concerning the birthplaces and final resting places of Antarctic personalities as well as monuments and dedications.
网站简介:Provides information on the Arctic region and the critical issues, problems and opportunities which face the peoples of the Circumpolar North. Includes the topics of sustainable development and community viability, social and environmental policy and contemporary human and environmental crises.
网站简介:Frank Hurley's photographs from the 1914 Antarctic expedition of the Endurance. Includes descriptions of the photos, and maps that show the position of the vessel when the particular photograph was taken.
网站简介:Information on the location and size of the Norwegian territory.
网站简介:Maintains a network of automatic buoys in the Arctic Basin which monitor pressure, temperature, and ice motion data to support real-time operations and meteorological and oceanographic research.
网站简介:Virtually cloudless, seamless, and high resolution satellite view of Antarctica, created from more than 1,000 Landsat ETM+ scenes. From the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
网站简介:Continuously monitors atmosphere, ocean, and sea ice conditions in the central Arctic Ocean. Describes the background and purpose of the observatory, and includes graphs and statistics.
网站简介:The BBC speaks to Vyacheslav Mazurenko, who when 22 was serving as a chief warrant officer on a Soviet nuclear-powered submarine, the K-27. He and others were poisoned when a liquid metal-cooled reactor leaked. The submarins was later sunk into the Kara Sea.
网站简介:The BBC reports that Canadian explorers have drawn a blank in the latest hunt for the remains of Captain Sir John Franklin's fatal expedition, 160 years after he took his crew of 129 men deep into the Arctic.
网站简介:The BBC reports that the largest animal eradication project the world has ever seen is set for its next phase.
网站简介:The BBC reports on Soviet nuclear mess, dumped into the Arctic.
网站简介:The BBC reports on the eradication of the world's mostly southerly herd of reindeer.
网站简介:The BBC reports on the final leg of a mission to eradicate rats from the island of South Georgia, with the aim of “reclaiming the island for its seabirds”.
网站简介:The BBC reports on progress in the project to eliminate the rats introduced by humans.
网站简介:The BBC reports from the abandoned whaling station at Leith Harbour.
网站简介:NY Times article about the discovery of an ice-free patch of ocean near the North Pole.
网站简介:Current and extended weather conditions from numerous stations.
网站简介:Provides current, projected, and historical weather conditions on the island. Includes sunrise and sunset times, moon phases, and seasonal precipitation averages.
网站简介:News from the Arctic Region gathered from various sources on the web.
网站简介:Site for this PBS production provides broadcast information and video ordering. Also about the island, trivia, educational information and related links.
网站简介:Information on a scientific mission of the US Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star, its crew, its discoveries, Arctic peoples, and the northern environment. Includes an image, sound, and video archive.
网站简介:Offers a broad range of full text and bibliographic databases designed for research. Subject areas include: academic, biomedical, government, school, and corporate libraries. Requires registration.
网站简介:Essays on key environmental issues by respected Arctic scientists.