The Antarctic Circle is one of the five major circles or parallels of latitude that mark maps of the Earth. It is at latitude 66 degrees 33′ 39″ south of the equator (in 2000; like its ...

For Andrew Evans, passing over the Antarctic Circle was akin to crossing a sacred finish line. I’ve crossed a lot of lines on this journey–state lines, borderlines, the equator, both tropics ...

Bedmap3 is the newest map showing what Antarctica will look like without ice. British Antarctic Survey. Scientists used data from planes, satellites, ships, and dog sleds to create the map and ...

It is as mysterious as they come. A huge, 2-kilometre-wide circle spotted during a routine flight over an Antarctic ice shelf in 2014 has had scientists scratching their heads ever since.