2025 in Antarctica

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This is a list of events occurring in Antarctica in 2025 .

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Ongoing Events

• Climate change in Antarctica ^[1]
• Avian influenza subtype H5N1 outbreak in Antarctica ^[2]

January

• Early January – Chile's President Gabriel Boric visited the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, becoming the first leader in the Americas to visit the South Pole. ^[3]
• Early January – At the Little Dome C site, the European Beyond EPICA project has achieved a historic milestone by successfully drilling a 2800m-long ice core, consisting of ice which is more than 1.2 million years old. ^[4]
• Early January – The Canadian patrol vessel HMCS Margaret Brooke has departed Halifax on Operation PROJECTION 2025. This is the first-ever Antarctic visit by a Canadian military vessel. ^[5] The mission is supporting a team of 15 Canadian climate scientists. ^[6]
• 3 January – The Ukrainian icebreaker Noosfera has arrived at the Vernadsky Research Base. ^{[7] [8]}
• 8 January – The French icebreaker L'Astrolabe has left the Dumont d'Urville station and arrived in Hobart on January 13, completing its 3rd rotation of the season. ^[9]
• 13 January – An iceberg named A-84 broke away from the George VI Ice Shelf. The team aboard Schmidt Ocean Institute’s R/V Falkor (too) working in the Bellingshausen Sea changed their research plans to study the newly exposed seafloor and arrived on site on January 25. ^[10]
• 14 January – New Zealand's vessel RV Tangaroa left Wellington for the expedition TAN2502 to the Ross Sea, the ship's 16th voyage to Antarctica and Southern Ocean. ^[11]
• 19 January – Personnel from the Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station discovered the remains of Dennis Bell, a 25-year-old British meteorologist who died in a glacier crevasse on King George Island on 26 July 1959. The remains were later carried to the Falkland Islands aboard RRS Sir David Attenborough and then transported to London. ^[12]
• 25 January – The crew of the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s RV Falkor Too filmed the first confirmed footage of the glacial glass squid (Galiteuthis glacialis) . The observation was made at 687 meters in the Bellingshausen Sea. ^[13]
• Schmidt Ocean Institute’s RV Falkor (too) has completed its first science expedition to Antarctica. ^[14]
• Late January – The Ukrainian icebreaker Noosfera has been operating in the Southern Ocean around the American Palmer Station with U.S. researcher on board, supporting marine research on behalf of the U.S. National Science Foundation. ^[15]
• Late January – Two Czech research expeditions reached Antarctica. One team of six people arrived at the Eco-Nelson station on Nelson island and another of 14 people arrived at the Mendel Polar Station on James Ross Island. ^[16] They later confirmed the presence of avian influenza in dead birds ( Stercorarius maccormicki ) near the Mendel station. ^[17]
• Late January – A Brazilian Antarctic circumnavigation expedition ended in January 2025 after covering 29,000 km since November 2024. ^[18]

February

• Early February — Researchers on board the Spanish oceanographic ship RV Sarmiento de Gamboa have observed massive columns of methane emerging from the Antarctic seabed. The CSIC vessel has been cruising the Antarctic seas for almost a month and its mission ended on February 7. ^[19]
• 6 February — The French icebreaker L'Astrolabe has returned to Hobart after its 4th rotation of the season. ^[20]
• 13 February
  • A new map of South Orkney Islands has been published by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) for the first time in 40 years. ^[21]
  • A 60-year-old man suffered a heart attack at McMurdo Station. He was saved by first responders from the U.S. Air National Guard, McMurdo's fire department, and the National Science Foundation and later evacuated to Christchurch, New Zealand using a U.S. Air Force LC-130 aircraft of the New York Air National Guard's 109th Airlift Wing. This unit carried out nine medical evacuations during its Antarctica support season from October 2024 to February 2025. ^[22]
• 15 February — An expedition of University of Cape Town scientists from the Polar Engineering Research Group (PERG) returned to South Africa after studying the Fimbul Ice Shelf since December 2024. ^[23]
• 17 February— The South African S. A. Agulhas II returned to Cape Town following its annual supply and relief voyage to the SANAE IV base. ^[24]
• 20 February — New Zealand's vessel RV Tangaroa returned to Wellington after the expedition TAN2502 to the Ross Sea. ^[11]
• 27 February — Researchers at the South African Sanae IV station reported a violent incident among the crew. ^[25]
• Late February — Scientific expedition led by the Spanish CSIC aboard the Antarctic sailing vessel Australis ^[26] has confirmed the presence of the avian influenza virus (HPAI H5N1) on islands in the Weddell Sea. ^[27] The positive samples came from nine bird (mostly skuas) and four seal species. ^[28]
• Late February — The U.S. 109th Airlift Wing concluded the 2024-25 Antarctic science support season using its ski-equipped LC-130 Hercules aircraft. ^[29]
• Late February — Japan's icebreaker Shirase has made a port call at Fremantle Harbour, Australia to reload supplies and replace personnel between its missions to Antarctica. ^[30] On February 26, the vessel departed for Antarctica again. ^[31]
• February — New scientific laboratory building at the Bulgarian Antarctic Base on Livingston Island, designed by architect Penka Stancheva, was inaugurated in February. ^[32]

March

• Early March — The giant iceberg A23a has run aground near South Georgia. ^[33]
• Australia's icebreaker, RSV Nuyina has left Hobart, heading to Antarctica on its first dedicated marine science mission, ^[34] the "Denman Marine Voyage"
• Early March — The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has installed and activated two solar photovoltaic and energy storage systems on Bird Island research station and at Sky Blu runway in Eastern Ellsworth land. ^[35]
• 1 March
  • The Canadian patrol vessel HMCS Margaret Brooke reached Antarctica and stopped by Deception Island. ^[36]
  • The Italian icebreaker RV LauraBassi returned to the port of Lyttelton in New Zealand, concluding the 40th scientific expedition to Antarctica as part of the National Programme for Research in Antarctica (PNRA). ^[37]
  • The U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star departed Antarctica after the annual research and resupply mission Operation Deep Freeze 2025. ^[38]
• 9 March — The crew of the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s RV Falkor Too were the first to film the colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) in its natural environment. The observation was made using the ROV SuBastian at a depth of 600 meters near the South Sandwich Islands. ^[13]
• 10 March — The most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet, known as Bedmap3, has been published by a team led from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) in the journal Scientific Data . ^{[39] [40]}
• 14 March — The Argentine Navy icebreaker ARA Bahia Agradable rescued the Chilean supply vessel Betanzos that had lost power off Livingston Island. ^[41]
• 15 March — The Ukrainian icebreaker Noosfera arrived at the Vernadsky Research Base, delivering the 30th Ukrainian Antarctic Expedition. ^[42]
• 16 March
  • The first game of Gaelic football to ever be played on Antarctica took place at the BAS Rothera Research Station on St Patrick's weekend. ^[43]
  • The Australian icebreaker RSV Nuyina has arrived near the Denman Glacier and during the following week the researchers focused on a CTD transect across the front of the Denman Glacier tongue. ^[44]
• 19 March — The 1.2-million-years-old Beyond EPICA ice samples left Antarctica aboard the Italian icebreaker RV LauraBassi. ^[45]
• 20 March — The Ukrainian icebreaker Noosfera has deployed six oceanographic Argo buoys into Antarctic waters, the first such operation for Ukraine. ^[46]
• 21 March — China's 41st Antarctic expedition team set sail from New Zealand's Lyttelton Harbor for the Ross Sea aboard the icebreaker Xue Long 2 . ^{[47] [48]}
• 23 March — The Ukrainian icebreaker Noosfera left Antarctica for Punta Arenas, Chile with the departing crew of the 29th Ukrainian Antarctic Expedition and a seasonal crew on board. ^[49]
• Late March — The snow coach Ivan the Terra Bus was decommissioned after 30 years of service at the McMurdo Station, and in March 2025, it was shipped to Christchurch, New Zealand. ^[50]
• Late March — The 11th Antarctic expedition of Colombia, counting 34 researchers from seven institutions, concluded after three months of research on the Antarctic Peninsula. ^[51]
• Late March — NASA and NSIDC reported that in 2025, summer sea ice extent around Antarctica tied for the 2nd-lowest minimum ever recorded in the 47-year record of satellite measurements. ^{[52] [53]}
• Late March — A rare all-black melanistic gentoo penguin chick has been spotted on Rongé Island. ^[54]
• Late March — The MODIS instrument on NASA's Terra satellite observed new sea ice forming, as well as surviving multi-year ice, near the fronts of Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers in the Amundsen sea. Sea ice in this area was unusually persistent this year. ^[55]

April

• 3 April — Researchers aboard the RSV Nuyina reported on their collection of marine invertebrates in the vicinity of the Denman Glacier, including a pteropod which subsequently laid eggs, allowing the first direct observation of pteropod egg development. ^[56]
• 11 April — The 33rd Bulgarian Antarctic Expedition concluded when the naval research vessel Sv. Sv. Kiril i Metodii RSV 421 ^[57] arrived in Varna after its third 5-month mission to the Southern Ocean and Antarctica. ^{[58] [59]}
• 15 April — Daily Maverick reported on the growing danger of overfishing of Antarctic krill. ^[60]
• Late April — A rare 'pack ice' killer whale (Type B1) has been filmed by researchers aboard the Antarctic sailing vessel Australis near the Antarctic Peninsula. ^[61]
• Late April — Researchers of the 30th Ukrainian Antarctic Expedition reported a rare observation of a vagrant western cattle egret near the Vernadsky Research Base. ^[62]

May

• 1 May — New Zealand announced a renewal of Government investment to extend the Antarctic Science Platform's research into Climate Change in Antarctica for another seven years. ^{[63] [64]}
• 2 May — There was a magnitude 7.4 earthquake in the Drake Passage at 9 am local time. Chilean authorities mandated the evacuation of coastal areas in the Magallanes region and the Chilean Antarctic Territory due to tsunami threats but canceled the evacuation orders later in the afternoon after no serious damage to infrastructure or harm to people were reported. ^[65]
• 3 May — The MODIS instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite captured an image of the A-23a iceberg that has remained at a standstill less than 100 kilometers off South Georgia since early March 2025. The new image shows that the iceberg's surface area has declined substantially in preceding two months. It lost more than 360 square kilometers between 6 March and 3 May and its northern side is showing signs of edge wasting, a type of iceberg breakup where small pieces calve from many places along its edge. ^[66]
• 9 May
  • The Canadian Arctic and offshore patrol vessel HMCS Margaret Brooke arrived back in Halifax after completing its four-month mission to Antarctica. ^[67]
  • The Denman Marine Voyage concluded when the Australian icebreaker RSV Nuyina returned to Hobart after spending two months near the Shackleton Ice Shelf. This was the vessel's first dedicated marine science voyage. ^[68]
• 14 May — Newsweek reported that the UK House of Commons Environment Audit Committee discussed evidence that Russia has discovered large oil deposits of around 511 billion barrels in the Weddell Sea, which falls under the UK's Antarctic territory. ^[69]
• Late May — The Arête Glacier Initiative ^[70] was launched. This is a non-profit research organization aimed at coordinating and funding projects for better forecast and mitigation of sea-level rise caused by ice loss, especially focused on the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. ^[71]
• Late May — The Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) signed an agreement with an industry consortium to upgrade Davis research station. The works will start in November 2026 with the installation of a reverse osmosis plant and later continue with the construction of a new utilities building including the main powerhouse and various workshops. ^[72]

June

• 20 June — he Midwinter Day was celebrated. ^{[73] [74]}
• 28 June — American pilot and social media influencer Ethan Guo was detained by Chilean authorities after landing without authorization at Lieutenant Rodolfo Marsh Base on King George Island. ^[75]

July

• Early July — Initial analyses at the Alfred Wegener Institute confirmed that the ice samples drilled during the Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice (BEOI) project, and transported to Europe earlier this year, are more than 1.2 million years old. ^[76]
• Mid-July — Six Australian expeditioners traveled 90 km across the sea ice from Mawson station to Colbeck Hut to conduct the annual population census of the Taylor Glacier emperor penguin colony and to collect images captured by automated cameras monitoring the colony. ^[77]

August

• 6 August — The New Zealand air force has evacuated three people from McMurdo Station using a C-130J Hercules. The evacuation was requested by the U.S. National Science Foundation for medical reasons. ^[78]
• 22 August — A magnitude 7.5 earthquake occurred in the Drake Passage with no tsunami threat reported. ^{[79] [80]}

September

• 2 September — Satellite observations by the European system Copernicus revealed that the A23a iceberg, now north of South Georgia, was half of its size from the beginning of 2025 and was breaking up dramatically. ^[81]
• 7 September — Ethan Guo, who has been stuck at the Chilean Lieutenant Rodolfo Marsh base on King George Island for two months after landing a plane there without permission, was released and on 6 September, he arrived in Punta Arenas aboard a navy ship. ^[82]
• 10 September — NSIDC reported that this year's Antarctic sea ice extent has already surpassed the annual maximum for the two lowest years on record (2023 and 2024), but it was is still tracking at third lowest. ^[83]
• 11 September — The MODIS instrument on NASA's Terra satellite documented the ongoing disintegration of the A23a iceberg. The iceberg spanned just over 1,500 km² and two large fragments (A23g and A23i) were visible south of it. ^[84]
• 17 September — Antarctic sea ice extent reached its annual maximum of 17.81 million km², marking the third lowest maximum in the 47-year satellite record. ^{[85] [86]}
• 19 September — Using a decade of radar altimetry data from the European Space Agency's CryoSat-2 satellite, scientists have identified 85 new subglacial lakes in Antarctica. The findings were published in Nature Communications . ^{[87] [88] [89]}
• 27 September — The Australian icebreaker RSV Nuyina left Tasmania for a 52-day research and resupply voyage to Antarctica with 99 expeditioners on board, ^{[90] [91]} among them Jenny Bonser, the new leader of Davis research station. ^[92]
• September — A Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW) event occurred, rising the temperatures by more than 30 °C above Antarctica. ^{[93] [94] [95] [96]}

October

• 1 October – At 00:47 UTC, a meter-sized near-Earth asteroid 2025 TF flew about 428 ± 7 km above the surface over Antarctica. This was the second-closest asteroid flyby of the Earth ever recorded. ^{[97] [98]}
• 2 October — The first-ever direct air cargo mission from India to Antarctica took place. The DROMLAN's IL-76 aircraft transported 18 tons of National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR) supplies from Goa to India's Bharati and Maitri research bases. ^{[99] [100]}
• 3 October — Researchers at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) in Cambridge have finished the melting process of the 190 m-long ice sample from the bottom of a 2800 m ice core retrieved from Little Dome C in East Antarctica during the Beyond EPICA – Oldest Ice project. This has revealed an unbroken sequence of climate cycles stretching back at least 1.2 million years—the oldest continuous ice core ever recovered. ^[101]
• 6 October
  • The fleet of British Antarctic Survey (BAS) aircraft have taken off on their annual ferry flights from Canada to the UK's Rothera Research Station on the Antarctic Peninsula. ^[102]
  • The Italian icebreaker RV LauraBassi departed from Trieste for a long route to Antarctica by way of the Panama Canal and New Zealand. ^{[103] [104] [105] [106]}
• 10 October — Two helicopters transported cargo and 14 people from the Australian icebreaker RSV Nuyina to Casey station. The operation took seven flights, each one a two-hour round trip. The ship was approximately 100 nautical miles from the station. ^[107]
• 14 October – The Australian Antarctic Program officially opened its recruitment campaign for the 2026/27 season, seeking about 300 workers for almost 40 different roles. ^{[108] [109]}
• 17 October
  • The Ukrainian research icebreaker Noosfera departed for Antarctica from Cape Town, launching its fifth Antarctic season. ^[110]
  • The UK's RRS Sir David Attenborough departed Plymouth for a five-week voyage to Antarctica. The ship made the journey using hydrotreated vegetable oil, a biofuel intended to reduce the carbon footprint of the operations. ^{[111] [112] [113]}
• 17 October — The Australian icebreaker RSV Nuyina arrived at Heard Island. ^[114] During the visit, the icebreaker's hull has scraped the ocean floor, suffering superficial damage. No-one on the ship was injured. ^[115] During the following week, the ship's project groups explored the island, surveying its seabird and seal population with drone flights and in situ visits, searching for unusual levels of H5 bird flu-related mortality (found in elephant seals but no other species on the island), mapping the seafloor and investigating marine life around Atlas Cove from inflatable boats, and assessing the state of the old station at Atlas Cove. The crews also installed sea level-monitoring equipment at Magnet Point and transported eight "top hat reflectors"—ground markers for satellites—to the island for future installation. ^[116]
• 21 October — A Royal Australian Air Force C-17A Globemaster III airdropped 600 kg of ice core drilling supplies to Casey station in preparation for the Million Year Ice Core (MYIC) project summer season. ^[117] In total, the aircraft dropped approximately 12 tonnes of equipment to the station as part of Operation Southern Discovery 2025–26. ^[118] This year marked the 10th anniversary of Australian Defence Force's support to Antarctic operations. ^[119]
• 29 October — The "Under Antarctica" expedition began when glaciologist Heidi Sevestre and explorer Matthieu Tordeur flew from Cape Town to Novolazarevskaya station. They aim to complete a 4,000-km journey in around 90 days using kite skis, while mapping the depth and age of ice with ground-penetrating radar on sleds. ^{[120] [121] [122] [123]}
• Late October — he Australian icebreaker RSV Nuyina arrived at Davis station to bring 500 tonnes of supplies. ^[124]
• October — The 41st Italian Antarctic Research Expedition has begun with the first group of technicians arriving in Antarctica and reopening Mario Zucchelli Station, closed since previous February. ^{[125] [126]}

November

• 1 November
  • China's 42nd Antarctic expedition left from Shanghai. The expedition plans to conduct the first Chinese scientific drilling into Antarctic subglacial lakes. ^[127]
  • Australian tractor-traverse team led by Damien Beloin left Casey station for a 15–18 days of travel across 1168 kilometres to the drilling site of the Million Year Ice Core (MYIC) project at Dome C North. The team is using 6 tractors and 20 sleds to haul 493 tonnes of scientific equipment, fuel, and food to the drilling site. ^[128]
• 3 November — The "Under Antarctica" expeditioners covered their first kilometers snowkiting after driving from Novolazarevskaya station across Queen Maud Land to Thor's Hammer at the edge of the Antarctic plateau. ^[129]
• 4 November
  • The Ukrainian research icebreaker Noosfera arrived at Poland's Arctowski Antarctic station. ^[130]
  • The 79th ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition) officially took over Davis research station with a flag raising ceremony and handing of the station key from outgoing station leader, Nic Bye, to incoming leader Jenny Bonser. Then, RSV Nuyina departed the station with members of the 78th ANARE on board. A twin otter plane also brought two people who had been wintering at Mawson research station to join the vessel for the journey back to Australia. ^{[131] [132]}
• 6 November — The first group of the 34th Bulgarian Antarctic Expedition (nine logisticians and two scientists) departed by plane from Sofia to Punta Arenas. ^{[133] [134]}
• 7 November — The Bulgarian research vessel Sv. Sv. Kiril i Metodii has departed from Varna on its 4th voyage to Antarctica with Bulgaria's 34th Antarctic expedition. The ship was expected to reach the St. Kliment Ohridski Base on Livingston Island by the end of December 2025. ^{[135] [136]}
• 8 November — Colin O'Brady arrived at Union Glacier in Antarctica before embark on a 110-day, 1,780-mile (2,865 km) solo crossing of the Ross Ice Shelf. ^{[137] [138]}
• 11 November — The French icebreaker L'Astrolabe departed Hobart for Dumont d'Urville station. ^[139]
• Mid-November — ESA-sponsored physician Nina Purvis has completed her 13-months research stay Concordia station and left the continent via Mario Zuchelli station. There she met Sarah Gaier, who was taking over her role. Later, Sarah Gaier safely arrived at Concordia. ESA reported on this exchange on 12 November. ^[140]
• 12 November — The first 14 team members of the BELARE 2025-26 team arrived at the Belgian Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Research Station to open the station after it spent eight months uninhabited and controlled remotely. ^[141]
• 14 November — Governor-General of New Zealand Cindy Kiro visited Scott Base, becoming the first NZ Governor-General to visit Antarctica since 2003. ^[142]
• 25 November — CSIRO's Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness has confirmed the presence of the H5 bird flu virus in samples from dead elephant seals collected in October 2025 on Heard Island. ^[143]
• 26 November — The fifth and final drilling campaign of the Beyond EPICA – Oldest Ice project has begun. ^[144]

December

• Early December — The Australian icebreaker RSV Nuyina left Australia for its second voyage to Antarctica this season to resupply Casey research station and again visit Heard island, this time on a 25-day science and environmental management visit (V2). ^{[145] [146]}
• Early December — Earth Sciences New Zealand deployed an Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI) in Antarctica to observe atmospheric infrared radiation over the following 12 months in conjunction with NASA's PREFIRE mission. ^[147]
• Early December — A 29-strong international team set up a remote camp on the ice 700 km from the nearest base (Scott Base) on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet for the third season of the SWAIS2C (Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to 2°C) ice drilling project. ^{[148] [149]}
• 1 December — Antarctica Day was celebrated. ^{[150] [151]}
• 3 December — The U.S. Coast Guard heavy icebreaker USCGC Polar Star arrived in Hawaii on its way to its 29th deployment to Antarctica. ^[152]
• 12 December — The German research vessel Polarstern docked in Walvis Bay, Namibia, on its way from Bremerhaven to Antarctica. ^[153]
• 14 December — The "Under Antarctica" expeditioners reached the site of the abandoned Soviet Pole of Inaccessibility research station. ^[154]
• 15 December — The German research vessel Polarstern departed Walvis Bay, Namibia, beginning its "Weddell Sea Observatory of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Change" (WOBEC) expedition. ^{[155] [156] [157]}
• 16 December
  • NASA's General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) balloon-borne experiment was launched from McMurdo Station. ^{[158] [159] [160]}
  • The second group of the 34th Bulgarian Antarctic Expedition departed by plane from Sofia. ^[133]
• 17 December — The Italian icebreaker RV LauraBassi arrived at Mario Zucchelli Station in Antarctica after an eight-day voyage from Lyttelton, as part of Italy's 41st Antarctic Research Expedition, focused on climatology and oceanography in the Ross Sea. ^[161]
• 19 December — Seven new crew members and three scientists arrived by plane at the Belgian Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Research Station to start their mission in Antarctica. ^[162]
• 20 December — NASA's Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PUEO) balloon-borne experiment was launched from McMurdo Station. ^{[163] [164]}
• 21 December — The Bulgarian research vessel Sv. Sv. Kiril i Metodii docked at Punta Arenas on its way to Livingston Island. ^[165]
• 22 December — The SWAIS2C team started hot water drilling at their remote camp on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. ^[166]
• 26 December
  • The Bulgarian research vessel Sv. Sv. Kiril i Metodii arrived at St. Kliment Ohridski Base, marking the start of the active phase of Bulgaria's 34th Antarctic expedition. ^[167]
  • NASA's Terra satellite captured an image of the disintegrating iceberg A23a showing extensive pools of blue meltwater visible on its surface. ^[168]
• 27 December
  • The South Korean icebreaker RV Araon departed New Zealand on an eight weeks long research expedition to Thwaites Glacier. ^[169]
  • The Japanese icebreaker Shirase berthed 1,700 m off Showa Station on East Ongul Island. This was several times further than on previous visits because the usual approach route was blocked by broken sea ice. The icebreaker then transferred equipment, fuel, food, and other supplies to the station. ^{[170] [171]}
• 29 December — The Chinese icebreaker Xuelong arrived near Qinling Station to begin unloading cargo as part of China's 42nd Antarctic expedition. ^[172]
• 30 December — The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine decided to extend the state program of research in the Antarctic for another two years, until the end of 2027. ^{[173] [174]}

See also

• Southern Ocean
• South Pole
• Antarctic ice sheet
• 2025 in science
• 2025 in spaceflight
• 2025 in climate change

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