What are some fun facts about Antarctica for kids? The continent is endlessly fascinating for young, inquisitive minds. Find ...

Eating on camp can either be a disaster or a joy. Use these top tips to make sure its the latter, leaving you satisfied and ...

The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in Co Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.

When difficult times surface, will you be prepared? In 1911, two captains embarked on a perilous journey to the South ...

From a young age, Roald Amundsen dreamed of exploring the world and habitually slept with his windows open — even during ...

On a brutally cold Halloween evening in 1956, a plane landed at the ice-covered bottom of the Earth, touching down at the South Pole for the first time in history. It was nearly 60 degrees below zero.

When Roald Amundsen aimed for the North Pole, he turned to the sky to find a path through the ice. Though satellites make it ...

Roald Amundsen, who reached the South Pole, may have also reached the North Pole but again, the proof is unsubstantiated. The first undisputed journey to the North Pole occurred as recently as ...

For more than two months, British Capt. Robert Falcon Scott and his men had hauled their supply sledges across 800 miles of ice from their base camp at Antarctica's McMurdo Sound, hoping to become ...

A signed menu from Captain's Scott's 'last supper' before his doomed expedition to the South Pole has emerged for sale 115 years on. Robert Falcon Scott and his fellow explorers were given a ...

The first leg of their flight – from Florida to the South Pole – took barely 30 minutes. ... who with Roald Amundsen in the early 1900s became the first to reach both poles.