and it marked the official discovery of a new continent: Antarctica. It also cemented the modern idea, upheld by most maps across the English-speaking world, that there are seven major landmasses.

A Feb. 10 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows renderings of Earth, maps ... only seven continents. Satellite images show Earth’s seven continents, including Antarctica Glacial ...

Scientists have completed the most detailed map of ... sheet of Antarctica. This is the third version of this map, and is known as Bedmap3. It has incorporated data from ships, planes, satellites, and ...

Scientists have unveiled the most detailed map of Antarctica without ice, revealing its hidden mountains, canyons, and geological features. The new Bedmap3 dataset helps researchers understand ice ...

What comes to mind when you think of Antarctica ... shaking up what we think we know about the continent after unveiling a new, very detailed map of everything beneath the millions of miles ...

Creative Commons. Scientists have unveiled the most detailed map yet of the landscape hidden beneath Antarctica's ice. The high-resolution map reveals what the frozen continent looks like beneath ...

To study the rapidly changing ecosystems of Antarctica, researchers have recently created the first continent-wide map of its plant ... invaded Antarctica, including common lawn grass that has ...

Antarctica is in the grip of some of the world's fastest climate ... measurements to produce the first map of green vegetation across the whole Antarctic continent. We detected 44.2 km² of ...