When the Douglas Mawson sets sail this December, Aurora Expeditions' newest purpose-built small ship will honor the legacy ...

Recently Sir Ernest Shackleton has made an appeal on behalf of an Australasian antarctic expedition under the command of his old comrade, Dr. Douglas Mawson, whose desire it is to chart a stretch ...

Undeterred, Mawson set about planning his own expedition. Waiting until Scott had sailed for Antarctica, he launched a funding campaign for the “Australasian Antarctic Expedition”, its members drawn ...

This 12-day itinerary showcases the “frozen continent” from land, air, and sea, and explores the remote eastern reaches of ...

He was part of the sixth Soviet Antarctic expedition sent to build a new base at the Schirmacher Oasis. As the polar winter rolled in, Leonid reportedly started to feel tired, weak and nauseous ...

Xuelong 2, one of the ships from China's 41st Antarctic expedition team, departs on a nearly seven-month mission to Antarctica on November 1, 2024 in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province.

Wealthy adventurers and bucket listers rub shoulders with scientists looking to gather data as funding vanishes under the ...

G Adventures will launch a new expedition ship for the upcoming Antarctica season this winter, operating five Antarctica expedition itineraries. The new ship, currently named Ocean Adventurer, will ...

Aurora Expeditions announced that international bestselling author and travel photographer Lola Akinmade Åkerström will host ...

At Zhongshan Station in Antarctica, expedition members have continued space monitoring in optical and radio wavebands. A large-aperture auto-tracking optical telescope and a new astronomical ...