During the XXX and XXXI Italian Antarctic expeditions (2014/15, 2015/16), 387 rocks have been sampled within the aim of the project "Tectonic inheritance in northern Victoria Land: the role of Paleozoic discontinuities in recent geodynamic evolution and the influence in the establishment of the Antarctic glaciation" in northern Victoria Land. They include intrusive, subvolcanic, volcanic, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks and fossil woods. The investigated regions are within Coulman Island SS 58-60/6, Daniels Range SR 57-58/14, Ebbe Glacier SR 57-58/16, Freyberg Mountains SS 58-60/1, Mount Joyce SS 55-57/16, Mount Melbourne SS 58-60/9, Mount Murchison SS 58-60/5, Mount Soza SR 57-58/15, Ob' Bay SR 57-58/11, Pomerantz Tableland SR 57-58/10 and Relief Inlet SS 58-60/13 USGS sheets.

Antarctic and SubAntarctic Ophiuroidea - MNA (Section of Genoa)

During the XXXVIII Italian Antarctic expedition (2022/23), 126 rocks have been sampled within the aim of “MAGIC” project in northern Victoria Land. They include volcanic, igneous and metamorphic rocks, and sediment. The investigated regions are within Cape Hallett SS58-60/2, Freyberg Mountains SS 58-60/1, Mount Murchison SS 58-60/5 and Mount Melbourne SS 58-60/9 USGS sheets. Project: Magma-Ice interaction: late Miocene ice thickness and eruption tempo in northern Victoria Land.

This new dataset presents occurrence data for Porifera collected in the Ross Sea, mainly in the Terra Nova Bay area, and curated at the Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA, section of Genoa). Specimens were collected in 331 different sampling stations at depths ranging from 17 to 1100 meters in the framework of 17 different Italian Antarctic expeditions funded by the Italian National Antarctic Research Program (PNRA). This dataset focuses on all classes (Calcarea, Demospongiae, Hexactinellida and Homoscleromorpha) of the Phylum Porifera (Kingdom Animalia), and includes a total of 807 specimens belonging to 144 morphospecies (with 95 taxa classified at species level and 49 at genus level), are included in the dataset and representing 12 orders and 30 families.

This dataset includes all the enstatite chondrites EL group collected during the Italian Antarctic Expeditions since 2004 in Victoria Land and now preserved at the repository of the Museo Nazionale dell’Antartide.

This dataset includes all the ordinary chondrites L group collected during the Italian Antarctic Expeditions since 1991 in Victoria Land and now preserved at the repository of the Museo Nazionale dell’Antartide.

During the XXVII Italian Antarctic expedition (2011/12), 143 rocks have been sampled within the aim of the project "Xenoliths and basic lavas for the knowledge of the C-O-H system in the lithospheric mantle of the polar regions" in northern Victoria Land. They include intrusive, subvolcanic, volcanic and metamorphic rocks. The investigated regions are within Cape Hallett SS 58-60/2, Coulman Island SS 58-60/6, Mount Melbourne SS 58-60/9 and Mount Murchison SS 58-60/5 USGS sheets.

During the XXXIV Italian Antarctic expedition (2018/19), 246 rocks have been sampled within the aim of the project "Early Paleozoic geodynamics of northern Victoria Land and implications for Gondwana reconstructions" in northern Victoria Land. They include intrusive, subvolcanic, volcanic, ultramafic and metamorphic rocks. The investigated regions are within Cape Hallett SS 58-60/2, Coulman Island SS 58-60/6, Freyberg Mountains SS 58-60/1, Mount Melbourne SS 58-60/9, Mount Murchison SS 58-60/5, Mount Soza SR 57-58/15, Ob' Bay SR 57-58/11 and Pomerantz Tableland SR 57-58/10 USGS sheets. Project: Early Paleozoic geodynamics of northern Victoria Land and implications for Gondwana reconstructions.

This dataset includes all the ureilite meteorites (primitive achondrites) collected during the Italian Antarctic Expeditions since 1991 in Victoria Land and now preserved at the repository of the Museo Nazionale dell’Antartide.

This dataset includes all the howardite meteorites (asteroidal achondrites) collected during the XXXIII Italian Antarctic Expedition (2018) in Victoria Land and now preserved at the repository of the Museo Nazionale dell’Antartide.