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Small boat navigating huge icebergs on Cuverville Island, Antarctica. Nigel Killeen/GettyImages

March 20, 2025

Scientists in Antarctica: why they’re there and what they’ve found

David William Hedding, University of South Africa

The main focus of research in the Antarctic revolves around climate change.

A glacial depositional feature – an erratic – is a large rock that has been ‘bull-dozed’ and deposited by a moving glacier. Elizabeth Rudolph

June 18, 2020

Marion Island’s last ice age happened earlier than we thought. Why it matters

Elizabeth M Rudolph, University of the Free State; David William Hedding, University of South Africa, and Werner Nel, University of Fort Hare

These findings are in stark contrast with the original worldview that suggested the entire globe was at a maximum glaciated state around 20 000 years ago.

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