Antarctica World Passport goes to Russia
A new Antarctica World Passport Office will be installed in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia from ...
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Purchase an Antarctica World Passport
Buy a stamped and numbered passport via the Studio Orta shop. See details below.
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Migration Week Marrakesh 5-12 December, 2018
Artists Lucy + Jorge Orta have been commissioned by DISPLACEMENT: Uncertain Journeys to present Antarctica ...
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Antarctica World Passport at CCK Buenos Aires
The Antarctica World Passport office opened at the CCK, from April 30 to November 30, 2017
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Antarctica World Passport Bureau in New York
Antarctica World Passport Bureau opens at the Jane Lombard Gallery in New York, from January 14 to February ...
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Frieze Projects London. 5-8 October, 2017
Antarctica World Passport Office is opening at FriezeProjects, Regents Park, London. All citizens welcome!
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Antarctic Convergence
It’s the place where meets the ice cold and less salted water of the Austral ocean that goes north and ...
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Antarctic Treaty
The activities in Antarctica are governed by the “Antarctic Treaty”, signed in Washington on the 1st ...
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Charcot Jean-Baptiste (1867-1936)
French navigator, baptized by Scott the “Gentlemen of the poles”, Jean-Baptiste Charcot carry out two ...
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Dumont-d’Urville, Jules Sébastien (1790–1842)
French navigator, He commands a squadron of two ships “L’Astrolabe” et “La zélée” in order to explore ...
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Eduardo Frei Montalva (62°12S – 58°57’W)
The Chilean base is located west of the King George Island (South Shetland) on an area free of ice, which ...
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IAATO
Founded in 1991 by seven tour operators, the IAATO Association (International Association of Antarctica ...
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Madrid protocol
The Madrid Protocol, ratified in 1991 by the signatory countries, freezes the possibility fo any kind ...
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Scott, Robert Flacon (1868-1912)
British explorer, he is the leader of two polar expeditions that which must allow him to conquer the ...
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Shackleton, Ernest Henry (1874-1922)
British explorer, he takes part with Scott to the raid sleds toward the south pole, then he launch his ...
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Victor, Paul-Emile (1907-1995)
French explorer and ethnologist, Paul-Emile Victor work at the “Musée de l’Homme” where he meets Jean-Baptiste ...
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Erebus Mont (77°32’S – 167°10E)
The mount Erebus is a volcano located on the Ross Island, in the Ross Sea, making it the active volcano ...
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Ice Coring
Technic that is used to withdraw ice coresin the ice sheet in order to analyse its composition.
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Ice shelf
The glaciers covering the continent (inlandsis) covers 98% of the Antarctica. Those ice stripes extends ...
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Inlandsis
The Antarctica inland is is the name given to the polar cap that covers the major part of the Antarctica ...
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Krill
Small crustacean of 3 or 4 cm long that looks like a shrimp. Gathered in swarm that can covers several ...
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Magnetic Pole
Point where the magnetic inclinaison is rigourously equal to 90°. This point is located on the Ice cap ...
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Ozone
In 1975, British scientists discover the hole in the ozone layer above the station of Faraday, then at ...
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Pingouin
From the order of Sphénisciformes, family spheniscides, the penguin has a great ability to adapt to the ...
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Polar Circle
The polar circle is determined by the angle of the rotation axis of earth on the plane of its orbit around ...
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Vinson (78°31’S-85°32W)
The mont Vinson is the apex of the Antarctica with a 4897m altitude. It is located on the East side of ...
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Concordia (75°06’S-123°21’E)
The Concordia Base is a permanent Franco-Italian scientific base settled at Dôme C on the Antarctic plateau ...
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Esperanza (63°23S – 56°59’W)
Argentinian base, established in 1952, which houses around twenty soldiers and civilians all year long.
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Amundsen, Roald Gravning (1872-1928)
Norwegian explorer and navigator. In 1903/1906, he is the first to pass the mythical Northwest Passage ...
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Antarctica
It’s a 14 million sqm continent of which 98% is covered by a thick ice cap and surrounded/bordered by ...
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