Labour's Jeremy Corbyn welcomed the bill and described the Antarctic as a "zone of peace" which belongs to the world, but suggested some Conservative MPs were showing a "slight degree of xenophobia and nationalism in their approach".
The exhibition also explores other Welsh links with Antarctica - a geologist from St Fagans, a stowaway from Newport and the Antarctic work of a zoologist from St Brides Major who later became director of the National Museum.
The prime southern destination is the Antarctic Peninsula, a mountainous continuation of the Andes.
Next stop the Antarctic continent, a land that no nation has claim over and no human can permanently inhabit.
Altered day-night cycle: the Antarctic winter involves a period of over three months of complete darkness where the sun does not rise above the horizon.
Every visitor to the Antarctic continent gets a lecture on dos and don'ts, like keeping proper distance from wildlife, and making sure to avoid even accidental littering.
The sanctuary is home to minke whales of the Southern Hemisphere, the only remaining population of great whales in the Antarctic still at a level close to their natural abundance.
Sometimes overshadowed by his contemporary Robert Scott, Shackleton demonstrated remarkable leadership skills in managing to save his whole team after they became trapped in Antarctic ice during a failed expedition.
In mid-December, the Antarctic summer, a colony of chinstrap and Gentoo penguins are in their rookeries, cawing and carrying pebbles for their stone nests as males and females take turns warming their large, speckled eggs.
Then peers turn to the committee stage of the Antarctic Bill - a private member's bill from the Commons dealing with environmental safeguards in Antarctica, followed by the first of three days devoted to the report stage of the Growth and Infrastructure Bill.
But four years ago a small Antarctic ice shelf suddenly disintegrated, leading many people to think again.
Bass King's Brew travelled with Robert Falcon Scott to the Antarctic in 1910, a fact the Burton brewers certainly publicised widely.
Climate scientists have been intrigued by observations that Antarctic sea ice shows a small but statistically significant expansion of about 1.9% per decade since 1985, while sea ice in the Arctic has been shrinking over past decades.
Sights you can expect to gawk at in awe on your voyage include a variety of points on the Antarctic Peninsula, the South Shetland Islands, a whole mess of seals, four different types of penguins and a starkly beautiful panorama of unforgiving rock, ice, and snow.
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At the IWC meeting in Morocco, there was a real chance of emerging with an agreement under which Japan would have pledged to cut its Antarctic catch of minke whales to a few hundred per year now and 150 per year in 2015.
Once heavily hunted, humpback whales that feed on krill have made a comeback in Antarctic waters.
This particular research forms the basis of creating a collection of Antarctic bacteria for conservation and biotechnological research purposes.
In their Nature paper, the authors comment that their "findings suggest that the Antarctic Ice Sheet may be a neglected but important component of the global methane budget".
Navigating through the CD-Rom, a child can explore five different branches of Antarctic research: ocean life, glaciers, astronomy, albatrosses and a strange phenomenon called whistlers, which are faint echoes of Northern Hemisphere thunderstorms.
Shackleton was aiming to circumnavigate the Antarctic continent when he died of a heart attack off South Georgia in 1922.
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One promising discovery is a glycoprotein which prevents Antarctic fish from freezing.
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Shackleton never lost a man in the Antarctic, despite being marooned there in 1915, because he understood his people, got them to make sacrifices for the common good, and earned their love and respect.
Wintertime Antarctic sea ice has been increasing at a small rate and with substantial natural year-to-year variability.
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The crew of the Royal Navy's Portsmouth-based ice patrol vessel has rescued a cruise ship threatened by Antarctic ice.
Not only that her trip includes a sightseeing flight over the Antarctic.
Tudor, 41, runs the post office and convenience store on behalf of the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust (UKAHT), a Monmouthshire-based charity working to conserve historic buildings in and around the south pole.
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The bill would implement a new annex to the Antarctic Treaty that was agreed in 2005, which requires anyone undertaking activities in Antarctica to ensure measures are in place to prevent any environmental damage and to have contingency plans should any damage occur.
Last year the couple traveled with Al Gore on a climate research expedition to the Antarctic.
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