1.   The once empty Antarctic seas provided just that, said Dr. Andrew Clarke, a marine ecologist at the British Antarctic Survey, a government research agency in Cambridge.

2.   An Australian icebreaker disabled by an engine room fire will abandon its pioneering mid-winter expedition and struggle home through Antarctic sea ice on one engine.

3.   Greenpeace vessel and a Japanese whaler in the Antarctic sea.

4.   When explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew returned to England after spending nearly two years stranded on the Antarctic seas, there was little fanfare.

5.   News reports said Monday that the Japanese government planned to lodge a protest against an IWC decision to exclude any commercial whalers from the Antarctic sea.