UNSW researchers unveil a new map and classification system that will help protect the unique plants and animals of Earth’s most remote and fragile continent.

Discovered by the West not much more than 200 years ago, Antarctica’s history is unique when compared to the six other continents—because its exploration, mapping, and “settlement” are all so ...

Diplomatic Courier editor Jeremy Fugleberg brings you three under–the–radar stories from the Hinterlands: scientists search ...

and it supports conservation actions required under the Protocol on the Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty." Dr Terauds said the database began with an initial foundational dataset taken ...

There is growing public support for marine protection across Europe as 73 per cent of people support a ban on bottom trawling ...

“Most European 'Marine Protected Areas' are just lines on a map, paper parks which ... led efforts to ratify the High Seas Treaty and championed protection for Antarctica.” ...

In terms of geography, the expedition mapped out the very first maps of the Antarctic region which included ... internationally coordinated scientific research. After 1961, the Antarctic Treaty System ...

Territory, here, doesn’t mean exclusive rights. In 1959, 12 nations with a scientific interest in the ice continent signed the Antarctic Treaty. This treaty was an agreement that Antarctica ...

Antarctica Day was inaugurated in 2010 to celebrate the 1st December 1959 signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which was adopted “with the interests of science and the progress of all mankind.” ...

For over six decades peace on the frozen land mass has been kept by the Antarctic Treaty, an agreement signed in 1959 at the height of the cold war that established it as a demilitarised ...