The researchers onboard the Investigator research vessel were originally working to study the Antarctic circumpolar current—the strongest current in the world's oceans—to better understand how ...

For the first time, amber fragments have been recovered from Antarctica, or, to be more specific, from an offshore ...

The Drake Passage is the body of water between South America's Cape Horn and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.

The Southern Ocean, which circles the globe without being blocked by land, is home to the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the longest of the world's ocean currents. Also known as the "channel ...