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Tectonic history: into the deep freeze

Antarctica hasn’t always been a continent covered in thick ice. Find out how and why the landscape has changed over the past 200 million years.
Key Stage: Key Stage 3
Topic: Ice sheets and ice shelves

Key physical features

What is distinctive about Antarctica’s landscape?
Key Stage: Key Stage 3
Topic: Glaciers, Ice sheets and ice shelves

Pine Island Glacier

Download the information sheet and imagine you are going to monitor Pine Island Glacier for one month.
Key Stage: Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3
Topic: Case study: Pine Island, Glaciers

Exploring ice

An international programme of science called iSTAR has an ambitious two-year plan to gather data about Pine Island Glacier from land, sea and air.
Key Stage: Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3
Topic: Case study: Pine Island, Glaciers

Glacial features

Learn the basic glaciology terms in the glacial features dominoes game.
Key Stage: Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4
Topic: Glaciers

What are glaciers?

Find out about Valley Glaciers and Continental Glaciers, and the most rapidly shrinking glacier on the planet, Pine Island Glacier.
Key Stage: Key Stage 4, Key Stage 5
Topic: Case study: Pine Island, Glaciers

So you think you know about glaciers?

In this section of Discovering Antarctica we investigate glaciers - the slow moving rivers of ice seen at their largest and most powerful in Antarctica.
Key Stage: Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4
Topic: Glaciers

Conserving the past

Who works on the Antarctic Peninsula to conserve historic buildings and artefacts?
Key Stage: Key Stage 3
Topic: Tourism

Using the past to research the present

How did early research from the late 19th and early 20th Century prove to be important for modern-day work?
Key Stage: Key Stage 3
Topic: Exploration, Fauna

Contemporary understanding

Watch videos of modern-day Antarctic researchers from BAS talking about living and working in Antarctica.
Key Stage: Key Stage 3