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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. |
Latest News
Dry Valleys Rising Lake Levels
Lakes in the Dry Valleys are rising and threatening established field camps.
Long term Read More
New Management Plan for the Dry Valleys
1 July, 2011
The Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) was held in Buenos Aires (Argentina) Read More
Copepods found in Lake Joyce
March 22, 2011
Scientists drill into frozen Lake Vida
March 11, 2011
The 2010-11 expedition was the third visit to Lake Vida in Read More
McPhail Turrets
7 July, 2010
The spectacular row of wind-sculpted granite towers at the entrance to Read More
IPY Conference, Oslo, Norway
June 4, 2010
It's the biggest celebration for the year that still hasn't ended Read More
Don Juan Pond, Greenhouse Gases and Mars
May, 2010
A high saline pond in Antarctica may be the Read More
New book details first university sponso
January 8, 2010
It took Colin Bull 50 years before he published an account of his first Antarctic expedition, a groundbreaking Read More
Colorado Grad students head to Antarctic
December 18, 2009
A National Science Foundary funded project called EXcellence in Teaching and Research for Elementary and Middle School Engagement Read More
New maps for environmental protection
August 14, 2009
A science team planning to hunker down in Bull Pass in Antarctica's central McMurdo Dry Valleys would today Read More
Exploring Lake Bonney
May 22, 2009
The robot that scientists deployed last year into ice covered Lake Bonney in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys was Read More
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