1 Bankruptcy courts are separate units of the district courts. 2  Federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction over bankruptcy cases. 3  People or businesses file for bankruptcy when they have more liabilities than they have the ability to pay from their assets and income. 4  Bankruptcy judges serve 14 year terms.
(Australian Antarctic Division (Photo: Paul Brown, Australian Maritime College)) Scientists at institutions in the United States and Australia on Friday published a set of unprecedented ocean observations near the largest glacier of the largest ice sheet in the world: Totten glacier, East Antarctica. And the result was a troubling confirmation of what scientists already feared â Totten is melting from below.
Sir James Clark Ross, a British naval officer and explorer, discovered Mt. Erebus during an eruption on January 27, 1841. He named it and a nearby volcano after his two ships, Erebus and Terror. Mt. Erebus is the largest active volcano and the second tallest volcano on Antarctica, with a summit elevation of 3,795 meters (12,451 feet). It is the highest point on Ross Island, home to both the U.S.-operated McMurdo Station and New Zealandâs main research station, Scott Base.