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The experience lets visitors explore historic Antarctic huts, meet penguins, ride a hydrogen balloon, feed huskies, and hear stories of survival and discovery ...
The National Geographic Endurance made its maiden call in London on May 1, sailing past the city's Tower Bridge and iconic ...
That being the case, it leaves us wondering about the Exodus from Egypt and the Passover story as a whole: Do we prefer being ...
A Cambridge University museum has claimed Britain’s exploration of Antarctica was “colonial” – despite only penguins living ...
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 ...
They also fire the imaginations of the young Lewis and his new friend Davy, a working-class boy from the shipyard area of the ...
Scott or Shackleton… who was the greatest British polar explorer of the Heroic Age? It's a matter of opinion, of course, but ...
THE final programme of the scientific work of the National Antarctic Expedition had not been arranged at the date of my departure from England, as the Joint Committee of the Royal Society and the ...
Author and Polar historian Michael Smith introduces Tom Crean – Irish Antarctic Hero ... frozen wastes than either Captain Scott or Ernest Shackleton. Tom outlived both the more famous men ...
and a leading expert who has participated in multiple Antarctic expeditions since 2004. Against the backdrop of global warming and glacier melting, China proposed the concept of "green exploration" in ...
5 January 2022 marks the centenary of the death of the famous Anglo-Irish explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and the end of the ‘Heroic Age of Antarctic ... felt more like an expedition than any ...