The Antarctic ice sheet, which covers 98% of the continent, averages around 1.2 miles in thickness, with its thickest point reaching nearly 3 miles, the Australian Antarctic Program reports.

1st map of Antarctica's green space unveiled. Here's what it shows. Story by Claudia Colesie • 1w. A tiny seed is stuck between loose gravel and coarse sand. There is nothing else alive around it.

The Australian Antarctic Territory embraces about one quarter of the Antarctic regions. The Commonwealth Government has now published a two-sheet map of Antarctica by Mr. E. P. Bayliss (Department ...

Everyone knows Antarctica is cold and icy, but what's underneath the ice has been a mystery. Scientists used six decades' worth of technology to take a peek.

A tiny seed is stuck between loose gravel and coarse sand. There is nothing else alive around it. All it can see is a wall of ice reaching 20 metres up into the sky. It is cold. Survival is hard ...

A new detailed map of Antarctica is set to significantly improve predictions of how ice flows and melts in response to climate change, say the scientists behind the project. The map, called ...

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than 60 years' worth of data from satellites, ships and dog-drawn sleds.

As the name of the map implies, this is the third effort to illustrate Antarctica’s rock bed. The project began in 2001, but the researchers involved say the new map represents a dramatic ...

Bedmap3 is, as the name suggests, the third version of the map, which shows what Antarctica looks like under the ice sheet. On average, it is 2,148 meters thick (excluding the ice shelf, which is ...

A 'vulnerable Antarctica' Scientists said the map revealed that the ice sheet is at greater risk of melting due to the incursion of warm ocean water that’s occurring at the fringes of the continent.