“Curating Amundsen – Rethinking a biography” is the title of a talk at the school by Anders Bache, who “lives and breathes ...

Captain Laurence Edward Oates was a British army officer turned explorer who would often visit to Meanwoodside, the family home in Leeds. He was part of the Terra Nova Expedition to Antarctica which ...

Picture this. It's a February morning and a tour guide walks up to a simple wooden hut set a short distance back from a rocky ...

Transportation to Van Diemen’s Land has been characterised as banishment to the other end of the world. It was surely that, ...

Photography: easy, right? Just whip out your smartphone, snap - and everybody's a photographer. New technology makes it simple to capture high-quality images with minimal effort, with billions of ...

The only humans yet to set foot on the Moon are American astronauts in the series of six Apollo landings that ended 53 years ...

In December 1911, Norwegian Arctic explorer Roald Amundsen, along with four companions, race against the English to become ...

An Edwardian tea set presented to Irish polar explorer Ernest ­Shackleton is expected to raise thousands at auction in London later this month.

Riley B. King is born near Berclair, Mississippi on September 16. The boy grows up to become a legendary blues musician known ...

Thanks to a growing body of Antarctic research, scientists are beginning to understand what journeys on the coldest continent ...

Thirty years ago, Ukraine took ownership of the former British Faraday Station (now Vernadsky) in Antarctica. Charles Cockell ...

Known as 'the trip chocolate', Kvikk Lunsj has fuelled outdoor adventures for generations. So, what makes this chocolate so ...