However in Antarctica, the right to an extended continental shelf under the UN Law of the Sea has to be considered against the provisions of the Antarctic Treaty, which suspends all territorial ...

The biggest iceberg on Earth is heading toward a remote island, creating a potential threat to penguins and seals inhabiting ...

The claim also covered a section of the Antarctic continental shelf, an area where no government can exercise sovereignty. On 23 May 2016, the Commission made public its recommendations and only a ...

AABW forms on the Antarctic continental shelf, sinks down the continental slope and partially fills the ocean’s abyss, accounting for about 36% of the global ocean’s volume (Johnson, 2008) and ...

The world's biggest iceberg—more than twice the size of London—could drift towards a remote island where a scientist warns it ...

The 'world's biggest iceberg', "A23a iceberg", which is more than twice the size of London, is drifting toward South Georgia ...

Measuring roughly 1,350 square miles (3,500 square kilometers) across, A23a is the world's largest and oldest iceberg ...

The vast Antarctic Ice Sheet holds more than half ... rises from middle depths in the nearby ocean up to the continental shelf, then along the undersea Filchner Trough toward the edge of the ...

The world's biggest iceberg is drifting toward a tiny south Atlantic island, potentially affecting the wildlife there, ...

the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf—one of Antarctica’s biggest, extending over the Weddell Sea—appears to be relatively stable, thanks to near-freezing currents circulating over the continental ...