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Located in the far reaches of Newfoundland and Labrador on the Labrador Peninsula, Torngat Mountains National Park is one of ...
When difficult times surface, will you be prepared? In 1911, two captains embarked on a perilous journey to the South Pole—one led by Robert Falcon Scott and the other by Roald Amundsen.
The Royal Norwegian Naval Ship HNOMS ROALD AMUNDSEN arrived at the Port of Hambantota for replenishment purpose on 10 Jun 25. The visiting ship was welcomed by the Sri Lanka Navy in compliance with ...
On Wednesday, the European Space Agency released the first clear images of the sun’s south pole, which were captured in late March by its Solar Orbiter spacecraft.
Conrad ‘Gus’ Shinn, first pilot to land at the South Pole, dies at 102 As a lieutenant commander in the Navy, he skippered a historic 1956 flight that helped fuel scientific research in ...
But Australians weren’t only supportive of Scott; they were, in Howitt’s original observations, highly supportive of all exploration of Antarctica, enthusiastically welcoming the Japanese expedition ...
Both claimed to have done so, but neither could produce absolute proof. Roald Amundsen, who reached the South Pole, may have also reached the North Pole but again, the proof is unsubstantiated.
After the loss of competing Russian Luna-25 lander, India's Chandrayaan-3 is set to hunt for water ice in the moon's unexplored south pole region.
Wang won’t say how much he paid Elon Musk’s SpaceX for the 3 ½-day ultimate polar adventure. The first leg of their flight — from Florida to the South Pole — took barely a half-hour.
SpaceX chalked up another human spaceflight Monday night, taking four civilians on a trip around the Earth that has never been done before.
The mission is named after the Fram, a steam-and-sail powered ship used by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen during his historic 1910-1912 expedition to the South Pole.