Article: Gateway to Antarctica.(The Hot Spot)(Brief Article)(Column)

Article: Antarctica is the new hot spot.
Travel Trade Gazette UK & Ireland;  December 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Antarctica poses two questions for the global travel ... temperatures as low as minus 89 degrees C, Antarctica is the most inhospitable continent on ... environmentalists and scientists who seek to protect Antarctica, cruising is the preferred mode of ...

Article: Buried secret: what built Antarctica's hidden mountain ...
Current Science, a Weekly Reader publication;  October 19, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... where a tectonic plate slides over a hot spot. Currently, no hot spot exists beneath Antarctica, but the continent might have sailed ... it might have been fight under Antarctica. "The Kerguelen hot spot might have been the trigger that ...

Transcript: Air Over Antarctica is Warming, British Scientists Say
NPR All Things Considered;  March 30, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... about air temperatures over Antarctica. Mr. TURNER: They dont ... well the ice in most of Antarctica, hasnt warmed up. So Dan ... and see similarly sort of hot spot over the South Pole. But ... weather balloon data from Antarctica, and nobody before now has ...

Article: Saturn's Bull's-Eye Marks Its Hot Spot.
Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  February 3, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... a strange, thermal "hot spot" on the tip of Saturn ... Vortex, centered over Antarctica, traps air and creates ... would explain why the hot spot appears dark in visible ... The discovery of the hot spot at Saturn's south pole ...

Article: Cold, windy... and taking bookings now First civilian flights aim ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  August 13, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... But the Falkland Islands are bidding to become a holiday "hot spot'' with the introduction of direct civilian flights from ... their position as a setting-off point for ships cruising Antarctica. Since 2003, Buenos Aires has refused to allow extra flights ...

Article: Hot spot at the bottom of the world Tourism takes a ...
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  October 3, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... south to a place warmer and sunnier: Antarctica. "You're kidding," came the constant ... 200,000 tourists have set foot on Antarctica. That's roughly the population of ... Nearly 99 percent of vacationers tour Antarctica aboard ships, most of them cruising ...

Article: HOT SPOT SO COLD.(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  January 21, 2008 ;     355 words ... ... put a date on the eruption, determine how powerful it was andmap out where ash fell. "This was the biggest eruption in Antarctica in the last 10,000 years." The survey team believe the discovery will provide vital evidence on the future of the ice ...