It turns out that Mount Erebus spews a fortune in gold across Antarctica — $2.1 million worth of it per year, according to reports. You’d struggle to pan it out of the Antarctic snow ...

This story appears in the July 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. The scene: a tent on Mount Erebus, an active volcano on Ross Island, Antarctica. The tent is a four-cornered tepee ...

In a recent discovery, scientists found that the highest active volcano in Antarctica is emitting gold particles along with volcanic gases. Mount Erebus which is still volcanically active was ...

And unlike the spectacular lava lakes of Antarctica’s most famous volcano, Mount Erebus, indications are the result won’t be pretty. Geologist Allie Coonin and several colleagues have ...

Mount Vinson is the highest mountain in Antarctica - it is 4,892 metres tall. Mount Erebus in Antarctica is the most southerly active volcano in the world. It began to form around 1.3 million ...

Antarctica is home to more than 100 volcanoes, some of which are active, such as Mount Erebus. Most, however, are hidden beneath miles of ice, their activity contained by the weight of the polar ice ...