Jonathan Amos joined the organization in 1986 as a local radio reporter in Cambridge. He was part of the team that launched the News website in 1997 and ran the online science desk for many years, later working as a science correspondent across TV, radio, and online.
The naming of geographical features in Antarctica follows strict rules.
The designation honors the journalist's extensive reporting on polar science, including the melting ice sheets of the remote continent, before he left the organization in 2024.
"I'm so touched that there's a little bit of Antarctica named after me,"Jonathan Amos said."Antarctica is the front line of the biggest news story on planet Earth - climate change.".
He was part of the team that launched the News website in 1997, and ran the online science desk for many years.
A stretch of water in the west of the continent is now called the Amos Channel after the ex- journalist.
Part of Antarctica has been named after former science correspondent Jonathan Amos.
He later worked as a science correspondent across TV, radio and online, before leaving the organisation in 2024.
The melting ice sheets of this remote continent are just one of many aspects of polar science that Amos reported on while at the.