The map is extraordinary because it depicts bays and islands on the Antarctic coast which have been concealed under ice for at least 6,000 years.

For hundreds of thousands of years, ice shelves along the Antarctic coast retreated and advanced unobserved by the human eye.

The more vigorous Antarctic coasts became modern, while Patagonia itself clung to the older culture.

Only the Antarctic and Australian coasts have no nearby subduction zones.

The first warning sign, the experts said, would be the retreat of ice shelves that extend off the Antarctic coast into the ocean.

He returned to England in 1843 a famous man, having discovered more of the Antarctic coast than anyone before the advent of flying.

This genus has a distribution centered on the Antarctic coasts and barely extends to some subantarctic islands today.

Some of the ships might even have reached the Antarctic coast.

Thousands of cubic miles of ice break off the Antarctic coast each year.

These dry winds can reach hurricane force by the time they reach the Antarctic coast.