NSF Seeks Comment on Subsea Cable to Antarctica

The National Science Foundation has issued a request for information seeking comment on a subsea cable to Antarctica, said a Friday release. “The cable concept proposes to connect the largest research facility in Antarctica, the U.S. McMurdo Station, with either Invercargill, New Zealand, or Sydney, Australia, with the global telecommunications infrastructure,” the NSF said: “The cable would incorporate scientific sensors to provide an enduring observational instrumentation platform for the sparsely observed Southern Ocean.”