Category: South-Pole

Wind-Powered Science: Kite-Skiing Across Antarctica

Léa Zinsli

Glaciologist Dr. Heïdi Sevestre and explorer Matthieu Tordeur crossed Antarctica by kite-ski, while collecting geophysical data with ground-penetrating radars.

New Map Shows Antarctica Without Ice

Heiner Kubny

What lies beneath the kilometers-thick ice of Antarctica? If the ice sheet were completely removed, it would not reveal a monotonous block of rock, but rather an astonishingly diverse landscape.

New Zealand and Switzerland Deepen Cooperation in Antarctic Research

Marcel Schütz

New Zealand’s Ambassador to Switzerland, Craig Hawke, handed over the Memorandum of Arrangement between Antarctica New Zealand and the Swiss Polar Institute