The Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE) is the first project of the Swiss Polar Institute (SPI), an initiative by the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and Zurich ...

She was refitted in 1990 as a tour ship and was the first ship to circumnavigate Antarctica with passengers in 1996-97. She’s 122metres long and carries 112 passengers and 70 crew members.

Ibrahim Sharaf Al Hashemi, an Emirati explorer, has participated in an air mission that completed the first circular flight ...

A weekend satellite image with a zoom-in on the Polarstern The German Research Vessel Polarstern has made a remarkable circumnavigation of Antarctica's latest mega-iceberg. The ship sailed a ...

The mission to circumnavigate Antarctica, started by Harry and Ollie Ferguson, is thought to be a world first. The schoolboys built one-metre (3.3ft) replicas of two scientific vessels.

On January 10, the Royal Canadian Navy’s HMCS Margaret Brooke departed Halifax, Canada, on an historic mission - the first circumnavigation of South America and first visit to Antarctica by a ...

In 2022, Sydney-based sailor Lisa Blair claimed the record for the fastest solo and unassisted circumnavigation of Antarctica. Departing from Albany, Western Australia, on 21 February, the non-stop ...