Stories: Antarctica

Stories connected to Antarctica.

• Antarctica has a moss that belongs to that continent alone.Coscinodon lawianus grows on exposed rock in East Antarctica. Of roughly 23 moss species recorded on continen…
• An emperor penguin reached New Zealand. For a while, it eclipsed the prime minister.In 2011, an emperor penguin nicknamed Happy Feet appeared on a New Zealand beach roughly 3,200 kilometres fro…
• A continent with hardly any streets joined Street View.Google's mapping team added Antarctica in 2010 as a challenge to capture remote places. It began with two ima…