President Donald Trump has begun eroding the United States presence in Antarctica by announcing deep funding cuts to his ...

The US operates three year‑round Antarctic research stations: Palmer, Amundsen-Scott and McMurdo. McMurdo is Antarctica’s largest research station. Amundsen-Scott is located at the South Pole ...

Scientific research happens at all of the stations. At the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, scientists work on the South Pole Telescope and BICEP telescope, both of which study the cosmic ...

Few agencies have been spared as Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has ripped through the United States federal government. Even in Antarctica, scientists and ...

as well as to pick up 38 members of the oceanic research team before heading to the Amundsen Sea. The Lyttelton Port is one of the most important replenishment stations for China's Antarctic ...

The Chilean president's schedule included visits to the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station and Chile's research facilities on the continent. The Chilean government said in a news release that the ...

Boric arrived at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Friday, where the temperature sat at more than 20 degrees below zero. The president's trip was meant to reinforce Chile's claim to ...

The president said his visit to the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station reaffirmed Chile's own claim to sovereignty over part of the Antarctic. "This is a milestone for us," Boric said in footage ...

Once we had (most) of our gear, we flew from McMurdo Station, which is on the coastline, to Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, which is in the center of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. That was aboard a US ...

The claim: 'Man' can't advance more than 500 kilometers past Antarctic 'ice wall' A Dec. 13 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a picture of a research vessel positioned near a tall ...

About 500 miles away, Eagle City, Alaska has a telegraph station; Amundsen travels overland there (and back) to wire a success message to Norway on December 5, 1905. The Gjøa breaks through the ...