Nearly six years later, as he prepared for another expedition to Antarctica, Shackleton would die of a heart attack on South Georgia. He was buried there on March 5, 1922.

Antarctic soils harbor unexpectedly high microbial diversity, with 2,829 genetically defined species identified, and bacterial richness exceeding eukaryotic by a factor of 10.3.

Only, it’s not a pyramid at all – in fact, it’s a mountain. The Ellsworth Mountains are the highest mountain range in ...

The expedition team setting up in Antartica. “While South Africa has been a longstanding member of the Antarctic Treaty – in fact, one of the 12 initial signatories – it hasn’t had a very strong ...

More than 150 passengers and crew have been rescued from a stricken tourist ship after it hit ice off Antarctica. The M/S Explorer is now lying on its side close to the South Shetland Islands, in the ...

04/01/2025 April 1, 2025. Rabea Rogge has become the first German woman to go into space. She did so aboard a SpaceX rocket flying directly over Earth's polar regions for the first time.

The South African National Antarctic Expedition research base, SANAE IV, at Vesleskarvet, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. Dr Ross Hofmeyr/Wikipedia When the sun never sets or rises for months, you ...

The Earth Observation Center is working on a satellite-based system for substantially improving ship navigation in ice-affected waters. The German Earth observation satellites TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X ...

The South African National Antarctic Expedition research base, SANAE IV, at Vesleskarvet, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. Dr Ross Hofmeyr/Wikipedia ...

According to the U.K. Times, the group is stationed at the SANAE IV (South African National Antarctic Expedition) base located in Vesleskarvet, Queen Maud Land. Last month, a team member sparked ...