Recently Sir Ernest Shackleton has made an appeal on behalf of an Australasian antarctic expedition under the command of his old comrade, Dr. Douglas Mawson, whose desire it is to chart a stretch ...

Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Discovery 1901-1904 Sponsored by the Royal Geographical Society, Scott led the British National Antarctic Expedition with the goal of geographical exploration from a ...

Fans of polar exploration might already be familiar with Otto Nordenskjold and the 1901–1904 Swedish Antarctic Expedition.

Ernest Shackleton became the ultimate model for crisis management when his ill-fated 1914 Antarctic expedition met with disaster. His ship, the Endurance, was stranded amidst the expanding ice ...

An expedition to study Antarctic krill and the baleen whales that feed upon them is underway in the Antarctic Peninsula. The project is funded by the UK Government through Darwin Plus. The team of ...

China's latest Antarctic expedition achieved multiple firsts, including launching active-source seismic exploration in the inland regions for the first time, which filled a gap in the country's ...

China's research icebreaker Xuelong, or Snow Dragon, arrived in Shanghai on Tuesday, marking the completion of key missions in the country's 41st Antarctic expedition. The latest Antarctic ...