I set out in 1911 to be the first person to reach the South Pole. I knew that Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen ... Despite our insulting clothes made of canvas, wool and reindeer fur, the ...

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Iceberg A23a has been a concern for scientists since it broke away from the Antarctic ice shelf in 1986. After remaining immobile for over three decades, the iceberg finally broke free in 2020 and ...

The whale may have been following food, or it may have become lost. An Antarctic minke whale in the Amundsen Sea.Credit: Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images There may also be some unknown factors ...

Discovered by the West not much more than 200 years ago, Antarctica’s history is unique when compared to the six other ...

Captain Scott successfully reached the South Pole in 1912 but, having discovered the Norwegian Roald Amundsen had beaten him to the target, died with his team on the return leg. Shackleton planned ...

In 1914, explorer Ernest Shackleton and his 27-man crew set sail on a journey to Antarctica. Their mission? To become the first people to ever cross the entire continent, which is roughly 1.3 ...