Antarctica Live

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  • Guardian journalists Alok Jha and Laurence Topham are on board the MV Akademik Shokalskiy as part of the 2013-2014 Australasian Antarctic Expedition, which commemorates the centenary of the first AAE led by Sir Douglas Mawson.

    Follow their blog for full interactive and multimedia coverage as AAE scientists repeat Mawson's pioneering measurements to record how the eastern Antarctic has changed in the last 100 years.

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  • Antarctica Live: iceberg ahead!

    Video (3min 47sec) As the Akademik Shokalskiy approaches the Antarctic coastline, the landscape changes dramatically. The sea becomes becalmed as it fills with pack ice

  • Antarctica bound: work and play on a research vessel – in pictures

    Antarctica Live: the bows of the Akademik Shokalskiy

    Researchers and journalists on board the Akademik Shokalskiy brave rough seas as they go about their work – but also find time to eat and relax

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