Scientists Map Long Ignored Antarctic Island Formerly Danger Zone

Scientists Map Long Ignored Antarctic Island Formerly Danger Zone
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Scientists Map Long Ignored Antarctic Island Formerly Danger Zone

The discovery of a previously unmapped island in the northwestern Weddell Sea has caught attention because charts labeled the spot a "danger zone" for navigation, yet the rocky landform appears to have been sitting there for ages unnoticed until researchers aboard the German icebreaker Polarstern identified and mapped it during an expedition studying sea ice...