A small plane with two sick U.S. workers arrived safely in Chile late Wednesday after leaving Antarctica in a daring rescue mission from a remote South Pole research station.
Here science and technical support have been integrated in a very cost-effective way - our Antarctic research programme has several summers-only stations and two all-year-round ones; I was based on one of the all-year-round ones.
Groups of them are also called colonies and scientists say this is a super colony of more than 1.5 million penguins. Specifically, they`re Adelie Penguins, relatively small penguins that live in Antarctica.
Some people might not agree because if there are some companies making profit, it might be difficult to prevent an increase in tourism to Antarctica. And what control do they have over the tourists?
Of course the ocean's deepest trenches are much lower than this but what we're talking about is the lowest point on land and the Antarctic trough apparently has no ocean water.