Environmental links
A Hagglunds Bv206 all terrain carrier, commonly called a Hagg by the expeditioners sitting on the Law Dome, which is an ice dome on the Budd Coast of Wilkes Land. The dome is 1395 m high. © Grant Dixon.
This page contains a number of links relating to environmental matters for Antarctica. If you know of other sites which you would like to see included here, please email us.
For many of these sites, you will need to do a search for “Antarctica” on the home page link we have given you.
Antarctica in the Earth’s system
- American Geophysical Union
- Earth View
- Earth Observatory
- Great Globe Gallery
- Earth from Space
- United Nations Environmental Program
- United Nations Population Division
- United States Central Intelligence Agency The World Factbook
- United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration Earth Science Enterprise
- Earth System Science Education
- Gateway Antarctica - New Zealand's Centre for Antarctic Studies and Research
- United States Global Change Research Information Office
- University of Auckland’s ‘Antarctica as an Educational Resource’
Who’s who in Antarctica
Science in Antarctica
- Australian science programs
- Byrd Polar Research Center – Ohio State University
- Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre
- International Council for Science
- International Polar Year
- Live from Antarctica – NASA
- Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
- Scott Polar Research Institute – University of Cambridge
- United States Antarctic Resource Center – National Science Foundation
- Classroom Antarctica - Australian Antarctic Division
What’s under the ice?
- Antarctic Margin and Seismic Stratigraphy Program – Japan
- Ocean Drilling Program – Texas University
- United States National Geophysical Data Center – National Oceanic and Atmospheric administration
Ice
- Antarctic Digital Database – Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
- Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica – University of Chicago
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- Iceberg page
- National Snow and Ice Data Center – US
- World Climate Research Program
Antarctic air
- Antarctic Automatic Weather Stations
- Antarctic Meteorology Online – British Antarctic Survey
- Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
- Intergovernmental Panel OD Climate Change
What’s alive in Antarctica?
Ecosystem conservation
- Committee for Environmental Protection
- Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
- International Whaling Commission
- United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
- International Association of Antarctic Tour Operators
