The three services of the Argentine Armed Forces, together with private sector companies have finished upgrading landing facilities at the Antarctic base of Petrel in the Antarctic Peninsula.

Maritime Surveillance Aeronaval Squadron flew from the Río Grande Naval Air Base to the Petrel Joint Antarctic B ...

Argentine Navy's ARA Puerto Argentino sloop has sucessfully unloaded supplies and machinery this week at the Petrel Base in Antarctica, it was reported. A self-propelled pontoon built entirely at ...

44.5 x 36.5 cm. (17.5 x 14.4 in.) ...

Wilsons Storm Petrel, Oceanites oceanicus, During a storm with high winds we encountered this rare ... [+] petrels on the open sea. They were constantly on the move and not easy to photograph.

Australian Antarctic Program scientists have used DNA technology to help identify threatened albatross, petrel and shearwater ...

The Antarctic shows off a totally different world of wildlife. In the skies above, wandering albatrosses and Antarctic ...

The Antarctic prion also known as the dove prion, or totorore in Māori, is the largest of the prions, a genus of small petrels of the Southern Ocean.

Find out where Antarctic cruises take you—glaciers, icy waters, penguin colonies, and remote islands. See the amazing spots ...

Signed in 1959 and effective since 1961, the Antarctic Treaty is a landmark international agreement that designates Antarctica as a continent dedicated to peace and science. Its purpose is to ...