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 ...

Ibrahim Sharaf Al Hashemi, an Emirati explorer, has participated in an air mission that completed the first circular flight around Antarctica, using two helicopters. The mission took place from 4th ...

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.

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.

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 ...