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It's a cold one out there...
Photographs from the Guardian Eyewitness series
It's 100 years since the great Antarctic explorer set out on his last voyage to the White Continent.
The story of the missing Arctic explorers is as much about politics as about archaeology
A voyage into the Arctic, a trip of a lifetime. 🐻❄️✨🌎>>>>>>>>>> 📍Last month I embarked on a polar expedition, travelling across Svalbard, Greenland, and Iceland with @aurora_expeditions Navigating a frozen world of ice and rugged fjords, from towering mountains with Arctic birdlife to ancient glaciers and polar bear sightings we explored some of the most remote islands and witnessed the breathtaking landscapes and wildlife of Svalbard & Greenland. There are only a few places on Earth…
Frank Hurley, A glimpse of the Aurora from within the cavern in the wall of the ice-shelf of the Mertz Glacier Tongue, Commonwealth Bay, Adelie Land, Australasian Antarctic Expedition, December...
Scientists on Arctic Expedition Choose Ice Floe That’ll Be Home for a Year - The New York Times
Shackleton South Georgia - Following in the wake of Ernest Shackleton and his historic Endurance expedition and survival story from Antarctica to South Georgia
From the Heroic Age of Exploration to modern day scientists conducting research on Antarctica’s ice-sheets, isolation is part and parcel of polar science and discovery.
These are ten of the most famous explorers of Antarctica, the frozen continent at the southernmost tip of the Earth. It has long captured the imagination of explorers and adventurers seeking to conquer its icy landscapes and uncover its mysteries.
Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914
Sailing in the arctic by Marieke Funke
Just over a fortnight ago, RV Polarstern, a German research vessel, sailed back into port, heralding the end of the largest Arctic research project ever undertaken. The MOSAiC expedition, short for…
Well, winter is on its way. My mind has been drifting towards cold weather pursuits. I have a new ice axe coming in today, and have been eyeing a new set of Black Diamond crampons, which I am trying to resist very hard. Whenever I start thinking along those lines, I can’t help but admire the people who pioneered the techniques we use today, and marvel at what they managed to achieve with inadequate equipment, but with an abundant supply of willpower. Recently I ran across a few pictures I…
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