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Eighteen tropical storms developed in the Atlantic basin during the official five-month season, including 11 hurricanes. Two ...

Antarctica may appear to be an endless expanse of ice, but beneath its frozen surface lies a complex and dramatic landscape ...

Taryn White is a D.C.-based travel writer who covers a wide range of topics, including ... visited swaths of Antarctica. Guests will explore the remote eastern side of the continent, with ...

which updates maps of icy Antarctica — particularly among the high mountains and isolated interior of the eastern part of the continent. As the name Bedmap3 implies, this is the third map of ...

It's common knowledge that Earth's southernmost continent, Antarctica ... ice sheet on dog sleds. The map gives us a remarkably clear view of the bed, including frozen mountains and canyons.