Beneath Mount Erebus, researchers have found a hidden underground ecosystem that could rewrite history. This hidden world may ...

In a recent discovery, scientists found that the highest active volcano in Antarctica is emitting gold particles along with volcanic gases. Mount Erebus which is still volcanically active was ...

This story appears in the July 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. The scene: a tent on Mount Erebus, an active volcano on Ross Island, Antarctica. The tent is a four-cornered tepee ...

In 1929, Richard Byrd became the first pilot to fly an airplane over the South Pole. With fewer restrictions and capabilities ...

And the legacy of the Mt Erebus disaster is still felt 40 years on. Air New Zealand had started operating scenic flights over Antarctica only two years before, and they had been a great success.

and snow in search of thermophilic bacteria on the volcanic slopes of Mount Erebus, the world's most southerly active volcano. Erebus rises some 3,660 meters from Ross Island, in the icy oceans near ...

According to NASA's Earth Observatory, Mount Erebus, positioned above a thin crust, frequently emits plumes of gas and steam. It also occasionally ejects rock in strombolian eruptions and ...

Mount Vinson is the highest mountain in Antarctica - it is 4,892 metres tall. Mount Erebus in Antarctica is the most southerly active volcano in the world. It began to form around 1.3 million ...

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