Thursday, 11 April 2013

New chart shows the entire topography of the Antarctic seafloor in detail

Bremerhaven, Germany (SPX) Apr 12, 2013



Reliable information on the depth and floor structure of the Southern Ocean has so far been available for only few coastal regions of the Antarctic. An international team of scientists under the leadership of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, has for the first time succeeded in creating a digital map of the entire Antarctic seafloor.

The Internat