Megan Branson McMurdo station sits on Ross Island, just off the coast of Antarctica Flights landing at the base must, by law, have a fire crew on hand, but McMurdo is also a fully functioning town.

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Ross Island When Found 2017 The Waddell Sea might not be one of the deepest ocean locations in the world, but it's often more fascinating. One of the most incredible discoveries in Antarctica came ...

The country with the most landing sites in Antarctica is the United States, with 13 in total, four of them operated jointly with New Zealand and one with Chile. To fly to the continent, the United ...

There is only one other active volcano in Antarctica — Mount Erebus on Ross Island. Today, Port Foster is home to two permanent research stations run by Argentina and Spain, according to the ...

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 ...

Early explorers skimmed the boundaries of Antarctica in daring sea voyages ... the goal of geographical exploration from a base on Ross Island in the Ross Sea. In 1902, Scott, Dr.