its physical properties and the topography of the underlying bedrock at two different sites (Dome C and on the East Antarctic plateau at Dome F). Ice thickness is just a first indicator of past ...

Ground temperatures in East Antarctica have soared more than ... “The heat wave on the Antarctic Plateau is extraordinary ...

Mather, K. B., Antarctic Meteorology: Proc. Symp. Melbourne, Australia, 1959, 317 (Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1960). Morita, Y., and Murakoshi, N., Antarctic Meteorology ...

With remote-sensing satellites, scientists have found the coldest places on Earth, just off a ridge in the East Antarctic Plateau. The coldest of the cold temperatures dropped to minus 135.8 F ...

Nasa says it has detected the first signs of significant melting in a swathe of glaciers in East Antarctica. The region has long been considered stable and unaffected by some of the more dramatic ...

and then ascending the glacier reached the surface of the polar plateau at an elevation of about seven thousand feet. The ranges appear to continue with decreasing heights to the north of east.