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

Miami’s stripey pink and yellow beach parasols dwindled as our ship sailed into the sunset, and the lifeguards’ huts shrank to colourful confetti specks on the sand. A deep-water kayaker gave us a ...

It’s surreal to look back at the ship’s bow totally engulfed by ice. We’re the only living, breathing things here – until a ...

The rhythm and flow of Antarctica’s landscape is as catchy ... unforgiving environment. View of Wilhelmina Bay from the Greg Mortimer. And yet, I’m in no real danger: we are in a shallow ...

Recently, Russian scientists claimed that the universe’s largest oil and gas reserves were discovered in the British Antarctic Territory. This discovery has significantly impacted geopolitics, the ...

The phenomenon occurs because the Earth’s Southern Hemisphere is tilted toward the sun as the planet rotates around it, and Antarctica is at its closest point to the sun on the rotation.

Ben Galton-Fenzi is employed by the Australian Antarctic DIvision. Bishakhdatta Gayen is employed by the University of Melbourne. He receives funding from the Australian Research Council.

Cat Burford, pictured at the South Pole, said her 700-mile challenge across Antarctica had been "really brutal" A dentist from Truro is celebrating reaching the South Pole unaided to realise a ...

Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf may be under threat due to relatively warm water from the deep sea flowing towards the shelf. Is climate change to blame? When you purchase through links on ...

PONANT unveils its much-anticipated 2026-2027 Antarctic season with an up to 30 percent PONANT Bonus in savings on all departures. As the sister-ships, Le Boréal, Le Lyrial, Le Soléal ...

Photo by Hilary Dugan Antarctica is like no other place on Earth. The continent has been locked in glaciers for 34 million years, with a mere 1% of the land surface free of ice sheets. “It’s Earth’s ...