This is a list of events occurring in Antarctica in 2012.
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Events
- 24 January: A fire forces the evacuation of the Comandante Ferraz Brazilian Antarctic Base with two people dying.[1]
- 5 March: The Sea Shepherd anti-whaling organisation claims to have closed down Japan's main whaling ship, the Nisshin Maru, deep inside the Southern Ocean off the Antarctic coast.[2]
- 20 September: Data from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign shows the Antarctic ice sheet reached its seventh-largest extent on September 12, at 16.14 million km2.[3]
- 18 October: A fictional feature film, called South of Sanity, is shot in Antarctica for the first time.[4]
- 26 November: Scientists have found life in an Antarctic Lake Vida that was sealed off from the outside world by a thick sheet of ice several thousands of years ago.[5]
- 12 December: A British research team launches a long-awaited project to hunt for life in Lake Ellsworth hidden beneath the ice-sheet in Antarctica.[6]
References
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