On March 4, the crew find themselves unable to move. As the southern winter looms, the ice thickens on the surface of the Bellingshausen Sea, to the west of the Antarctic Peninsula. The RV Belgica ...

Primarily in the Bellingshausen Sea, at the southern tip of Antarctica, rising temperatures caused the ice where the penguins were breeding to fracture and disintegrate giving way under the birds ...

The event, in late 2022, occurred in the west of the continent in an area fronting on to the Bellingshausen Sea. It was recorded by satellites. Dr Peter Fretwell, from the British Antarctic Survey ...

The “A” refers to the Antarctic quadrant it originated from. In this case, it’s the area of the Bellingshausen/Weddell Sea. Icebergs are given a lower-case letter as an add-on when they ...

Approximately 10,000 breeding pairs in four of the five colonies in the central and eastern Bellingshausen Sea “likely saw all their chicks die”. Climate scientists “expected” to see these ...

At the beginning of December 2022, the Antarctic sea ice extent had matched the previous all-time low set in 2021. The most extreme loss was seen in the central and eastern Bellingshausen Sea ...

Currently wrapping up a season in the region, Ponant’s Le Commandant Charcot will return to the Arctic for the 2026-27 winter ...

The big “A” designates the Bellingshausen/Weddell Sea area. The little “a” at the end is added when an iceberg breaks apart and the pieces get sequential letters. A23a is imposing, ...