A parliamentary report has called on for a second icebreaking vessel and more reliable funding for Antarctic research.

Sue Halliwell marks the 150th anniversary of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s birth by tracing his ill-fated British ...

When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...

Lisa Werner, a music teacher at St. Bruno Parish School in Dousman, traveled last year to Antarctica thanks to a teaching ...

Polar Class goes from PC1 to PC7 — and the first thing to remember is PC1 is the top ranking. This is particularly important ...

Penguins are typically flightless but in this award-winning clip, hundreds of them defied their own limitation by taking a ...

South Georgia is a resurrected wonderland of Southern Ocean fauna after the ravages of the sealing and whaling eras. Today it ...

This National Geographic book is much more than a coffee table tome, although you could easily spend hours just poring over the photographs: black-and-white reproductions from Shackleton’s voyage, and ...

bringing to life the remarkable survival story of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated 1914 Antarctic expedition. The film, from National Geographic Documentary Films, combines restored archival ...

The November trip was groundbreaking for National Geographic-Lindblad Expeditions—which had never before offered flights to or from Antarctica—only sailing to what is still considered one of ...

Ice-rated expedition ships are becoming a familiar sight in a less rugged and more well-trodden part of the world: the Mediterranean. Discover if you should book this type of ship for a less ...

This collection of Funky Facts from Go Jetters focuses on Antarctica, the coldest ... The other clip is about the Geographic South Pole and the challenge it sets to explorers past and present ...