Sandwiched between the freezing cold of Earth’s coldest continent and the warmth of its southernmost active volcano, the ...

The dramatic scene of this penguin separating from its flock was filmed at the McMurdo Station located at the tip of Ross ...

This ice cave was one stemming from the tongue of a glacier flowing from Mount Erebus, one of the most powerful volcanoes of ...

In 1929, Richard Byrd became the first pilot to fly an airplane over the South Pole. With fewer restrictions and capabilities ...

This story appears in the July 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. The scene: a tent on Mount Erebus, an active volcano on Ross Island, Antarctica. The tent is a four-cornered tepee ...

and snow in search of thermophilic bacteria on the volcanic slopes of Mount Erebus, the world's most southerly active volcano. Erebus rises some 3,660 meters from Ross Island, in the icy oceans near ...

And the legacy of the Mt Erebus disaster is still felt 40 years on. Air New Zealand had started operating scenic flights over Antarctica only two years before, and they had been a great success.

Mount Vinson is the highest mountain in Antarctica - it is 4,892 metres tall. Mount Erebus in Antarctica is the most southerly active volcano in the world. It began to form around 1.3 million ...

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The Deception Island Antarctic Specially Managed Area monitors volcanic activity on the island, which houses an active volcano that last erupted in 1970. However, both Mount Erebus and Deception ...