SurfWax News Index  |  Track News  |  Save/Exchange Information |  About Us News and Articles on Transantarctic Mountains Going with the floe: pilot's icy record  Sep 12, 2009 The Transantarctic Mountains are spectacular. There are icebergs, mountains, glaciers. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia) Polar footsteps  Apr 4, 2009 The biggest obstacle on the route are the TransAntarctic Mountains. Remarkably, Shackleton managed to find a route across up the Beardmore Glacier, "a great highway unfolding from north to south." as he describes it. (BBC News -- UK) Andrill demonstrates climate warming affects Antarctic ice sheet stability  Mar 19, 2009 The massive WAIS covers the continent on the Pacific side of the Transantarctic Mountains. Any substantial melting of the ice sheet would cause a rise in global sea levels. (EurekAlert!) Sea levels would rise unevenly as ice sheet melts, study says  Feb 7, 2009 Covers the portion of Antarctica west of the Transantarctic Mountains. Onshore ice flows continuously out toward the coast. (Globe and Mail) Back to Geography News [ Terms Of Use | Privacy | About ] ©1998-2009 SurfWax, Inc. All rights reserved. Patents pending. Copyright SurfWax, Inc. 2009