Most Antarctic trips explore the western peninsula departing from South America for about 10 days. This is the most beautiful ...

5 January 2022 marks the centenary of the death of the famous Anglo-Irish explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and the end of the ‘Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration’. Shackleton’s ship became ...

The Drake Passage off the West Antarctic Peninsula is a notoriously dangerous channel that connects the Atlantic, Pacific and ...

The Endurance, the ship of famed polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, had been lost for 107 years after being crushed by ice and sinking during the ill-fated 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.

Melting on the Antarctic Ice Sheet for the 2024 to 2025 season began with above average melt extents in all regions, but melt ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of British explorer Ernest Shackleton’s expedition across Antarctica. He dreamed of becoming the first person to cross Antarctica via the ...

It also carries the hopes of every Shackleton enthusiast the world over. The man at the helm is Captain Knowledge Bengu, a 41-year-old from Durban of many years Antarctic experience. Beside him is ...

Oceanwide Expeditions concludes its Remote Weddell Sea Explorer voyage, making history with record-breaking achievements and ...

Sir Ernest Shackleton, the renowned polar explorer ... protected as a Historic Site and Monument under the umbrella of the Antarctic Treaty, the search will be non-intrusive.

The Trump administration is sabotaging the country’s gold-standard climate science in Antarctica and around the world.

Field research in Antarctica is an extended exercise in endurance. Grant approval alone can take more than a year, long enough to grow a beard like one of Ernest Shackleton’s shipwreck survivors.