Imagining Antarctica
- British Antarctic Survey webcams
Check out live pictures from Halley Research Station, located on a floating ice shelf - Admire the view from Royal Research Ship James Clark Ross
- South Pole Live!
Visit the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration website to find out what it looks like right now at the South Pole. - Virtual Reality Panoramas
Visit the Australian Antarctica Division for some panoramic views of Antarctica (You will need Quicktime to do this). - Check out the weather at Rothera Research Station in the Antarctic Peninsula
What, where, why?
- Find out how satellites work.
- Find out about a recent dinosaur discovery in Antarctica
- Visit The Living Earth to see what Antarctica looks like from over 250,000 km up in space! Type in the co-ordinates: 90° south for latitude, 0° for longitude.
A changing climate
- More diary extracts from Rothera research station
- global eye - summer 2002
- global eye - secondary spring 2005
- The UN’s Climate Wire service with all the latest articles about climate change from around the world
- Warnings from the ice
Beneath the waves
- Food from the freezer
More detailed information on the different species and their relationships in the Antarctica food web can be downloaded from the Classroom Antarctica website. - Soundbites
More sounds of Antarctica’s inhabitants.
The journey south
- Find out more about what to wear and how to prepare at the 2005/6 HMS Endurance Tracking Project.
- Find out more about Antarctica’s history of discovery and exploration at antarcticaonline
- See recreations of scott’s clothing and equipment at numispolarchallenge.com
- Try out the activities at Sunshine at school.
- See some pictures taken by photographer, Frank Hurley who recorded days after the Endurance sank in the Weddell Sea in 1916, and diary extracts... at Unlocking the Archives
Destination Antarctica
- Newsround’s Lizzie Greenwood spent three weeks there. Find out what she got up to by reading her diary at cbbc:
The Antarctic treaty
- Visit Antarctic Treaty Consultative
Meeting 2006 to learn more about the 2006 meeting held in Edinburgh, UK - Visit Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting 2007 to learn more about last year’s meeting held in Delhi, India
