Antarctica's first sighting on January 28, 1820, by Russian explorers FF Bellingshausen and MP Lazarev marked the beginning of unparalleled scientific enquiries and highlighted the continent's ...

In celebration of International Women’s Day, Wild Women Expeditions and Aurora Expeditions are joining forces to offer their newest trip: An all-woman Antarctic journey. Named “ Antarctic Women’s ...

Norwegian Carl Anton Larsen captained the Antarctic and was in overall command of the expedition. Larsen was an experienced polar explorer — in fact, he was the first person to ski in Antarctica.

In 1914, Shackleton set out to become the first to cross the Antarctic Continent on land. The expedition was a disaster: His ship, the Endurance, got stuck in the pack ice in 1915 and Shackleton ...

The Ship - SH Vega The SH Vega (named after the first ship to cross the Arctic Northeast Passage) is Swan Hellenic’s second-newest ship and made her maiden voyage in July 2022. The vessel’s equipment ...

In February 2023, Dr Earle, in partnership with Ocean Geographic will lead a world-first ‘Antarctic Climate Expedition’ on the new ship to raise public and government awareness of the ...

WHAT: Pole of Possibility Antarctic Expedition Virtual Launch & Crowdsource Story Project WHEN: Wednesday 16 November 2022, 17:00 – 18:00 CET (11:00 am -12:00 pm EST) SPEAKERS: ...

The RRS Sir David Attenborough is the British Antarctic Survey's new vessel, which will soon be heading to the southern polar region to start research. But first, it must go through rigorous ...

His first book was a biography, Silas: The Antarctic Diaries of Charles S. Wright, which was published in 1993.

He first joined a Ukrainian Antarctic expedition in 2011 as a diesel-electric engineer and has since participated in three more year-long missions at the Vernadsky Research Base.