TABLE OF CONTENTS. A Century after Scott and Amundsen, the Antarctic Still Beckons. By John Horgan. THE NORTH POLE. The North Pole and Its Seekers October 28, 1868 New Expeditions to the Arctic ...

It launched the Antarctic careers of many who would become leading figures in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, ...

It launched the Antarctic careers of many who would become leading figures in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, including Scott, Ernest Shackleton, Edward Wilson, Frank Wild, Tom Crean and ...

I’ve always had an interest in polar exploration, so I was happy to discover the book “Unsung Hero: Antarctic Survivor” about the life and adventures of the exceptional seaman Tom Crean ...

Locating the Quest – a schooner-rigged steamship which sank on a 1962 seal hunting voyage – represents a last link to the “heroic age of Antarctic exploration”, said search leader John Geiger.

In 1901, RRS Discovery helped launch the “Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration” when it took exploration luminaries like Robert Falcon Scott (who led the expedition) and Ernest Shackleton on ...

The Explorers Club was founded in New York City in 1904, in an era I like to call the heroic age of exploration. At a time when significant areas on the Earth’s surface were still terra ...

An era of breathless anticipation came to an end on March 7, 1912, when Roald Amundsen landed in Tasmania and sent telegrams announcing that he and his team of Antarctic explorers had reached the ...