Anti-whaling activists claimed a small victory in their Antarctic campaign Wednesday with the discovery of a Japanese harpoon ship, as one of their boats limped back to Australia badly damaged. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said its Bob Barker vessel found the Japanese harpoon ship Yushin Maru 3 some 200 nautical miles north of the French Antarctic base Dumont d’Urville. “The Bob Barker has been out at sea for about four weeks and this...
An ancient living laboratory of our planet’s past in Antarctica may have provided a preview of what we can expect to find deep below the barren surface of Mars and in the ice-shrouded seas of Jupiter’s Europa. Two of the world’s leading experts on life at the lower temperature extremes, Buford Price of the University of California, Berkeley and Todd Sowers of Penn State observed that microbes colonizing life appear to have two levels...
The Sea Shepherd scout vessel Gojira found the illegal Japanese whaling ship Sea Shepherd calls the Cetacean Death Star at 2115 NZST on February 9th. The Nisshin Maru was caught in the process of unlawfully flensing a whale on their aft deck at the position of 74 degrees 16 minutes south and 149 degrees 2 minutes west. The Gojira immediately gave chase as the Nisshin Maru attempted to escape by entering a field of...
Russian scientists used kerosene to keep a drilled hole open in the remote Antarctic Lake Vostok writes Eric Niiler for Discovery News. The big mystery of Lake Vostok and whether it holds ancient microbial life will have to wait for another Antarctic winter to pass. A team of Russian researchers left their remote drilling site this week with less than 50 feet to go to break into the surface of a vast underground lake...
Position: 70 Degrees 45 Minutes South 171 Degrees 45 Minutes West Vessels Involved: Japanese whalers – The Nisshin Maru, Yushin Maru No. 1 and Yushin Maru No. 2 Sea Shepherd Conservation Society – The Steve Irwin En route – The Bob Barker and the Yushin Maru No. 3 After a 26-day pursuit covering over 4,000 miles, the Steve Irwin caught up with the Nisshin Maru at 1800 hours on January 25th, 2011 AEST. “We...
THE GIST The bottles, from the British Antarctic Expedition 1907, were deeply embedded in ice at minus 30 degrees Celsius temperatures but the whisky inside was still liquid. The bottles of Mackinlay’s were part of a cache recovered last year from beneath Shackleton’s Antarctic hut. Tests are now under way to see how the whisky fared after being preserved in the polar chill for so long. Three bottles of whisky abandoned in the Antarctic...
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