which appointed him to command the National Antarctic Expedition of 1901-1904. The expedition - which included Ernest Shackleton - reached further south than anyone before them and Scott returned ...

Larsen discovered the first antarctic fossils, which proved that at least part of this region is not vQlcanic. During the years from 1902 to 1904, Capt. R. F_ Scott, commanding the “Discovery ...

Scott had claimed Shackleton had been carried ... His biggest test came in 1914 though, with the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. When his ship Endurance was trapped by pack ice and then ...

The Antarctic continent is cold, dark, and desolate for much of the year, so scientists want a cuddly feline companion to ...

Inevitably, in the effulgence of the Allied victory in the Second World War, a film was made. Charles Frend’s Scott of the Antarctic starring John Mills came out in 1948, complete with a score by ...

Gabriel Boric, the president, and a delegation of officials visited Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station ... The area is governed by the Antarctic Treaty System, which mandates that “Antarctica ...