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Information and training material for all visitors including videos, Code of Conduct, guidance for scientists and guidelines for different parts of the Dry Valleys.
Access maps of the McMurdo Dry Valleys ASMA, Facilities Zones and ASPAs and find links to other Dry Valleys map and GIS resources.
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The McMurdo Dry Valleys Antarctic Specially Managed Area (ASMA) encompasses the largest ice-free region in Antarctica.The 15,000km2 Area contains cold desert soils millions of years old, special geological features, and unusual communities of plants and microorganisms. Its landscape includes glaciers, mountain ranges, ice-covered lakes, ephemeral streams, arid patterned soils and permafrost, sand dunes, and watershed systems. It is a region where life exists at the very extreme of environmental limits. This website is provided by the Management Group for the Area to introduce visitors to this amazing environment and ways to minimise our impact on it. |
53 people scientists and managers from 6 nations attended an NSF workshop in 2016. The workshop report sets Read More
The 40th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting in in Beijing, China from 23 May to 1 June 2017 will provide Read More
February, 2012
Lakes in the Dry Valleys are rising and threatening established field camps.
Long Read More
March 22, 2011
The 2010-11 expedition was the third visit to Lake Vida in Read More
The spectacular row of wind-sculpted granite towers at the entrance to Read More
May, 2010
A high saline pond in Antarctica may be the Read More
May 22, 2009
The robot that scientists deployed last year into ice covered Lake Bonney in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys was Read More