This is possibly the BBC World Service's most unusual programme ... The biggest base, Rothera, on the Antarctic Peninsula houses 19 winterers – the population can reach 100 in the Summer.

Show more Cerys Matthews presents one of the BBC World Service’s most unusual programmes. The Antarctic Midwinter ... even a naked streak in the snow. Penguin warning: avert your eyes.

If you analyze the geochemistry of snow, you can figure out what the temperature of that snowflake was ... Then the cores are flown to McMurdo Station [U.S. Antarctic research station] and are then ...

The world’s largest and oldest iceberg ... with surveyors warning that the dangers are far from over. The British Antarctic Survey reports that the massive iceberg originally broke free from ...

Encased in a 4 kilometre thick layer of ice is a unique archive of our planet over the last million of years: the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Credit: Ashley Cooper/Getty Images ...

Roughly 1,550 square miles across, the world's biggest and oldest iceberg, known as A23a, calved from the Antarctic shelf in 1986. Before its calving in 1986, the colossal iceberg hosted a Soviet ...