Elephant Island lies in the South Shetland Islands 245 kilometres from the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. It’s where ...

A new scientific investigation challenges long-held assumptions about Shackleton’s Endurance, revealing that the ship may ...

UT-San Antonio prof Stephen Ackley will discuss his 30-plus years of navigating the Antarctic's unforgiving terrain.

Official versions of the two nations’ maps include large swaths of Antarctica, parts of which overlap with each other. And it ...

Historian and biographer of polar explorers whose book on Scott and Amundsen sparked controversy ...

If you can explain Antarctica, you've never been there.' That was the quote from our captain, Jorn Bowitz, as we set off on our voyage to the White Continent.

There are some places you visit, and then there are places that stay with you long after you leave. South Georgia is one of ...

The great majority of ships operating in Antarctica are ice-strengthened but Ponant’s Le Commandant Charcot is the world’s ...

Swan Hellenic is raising the bar for polar exploration with a one‑of‑a‑kind 32‑night Grand Voyage from Ushuaia to Dunedin.

Antarctica doesn’t forgive mistakes. When Shackleton’s ship Endurance was crushed by pack ice, his crew was left stranded thousands of miles from help. No rescue was coming. Survival depended entirely ...

In her second State of the City address, Salem Mayor Julie Hoy promised to continue to get the city "back to basics." ...

Our journey to South Georgia was part of a polar expedition organised by the renowned Dutch company Oceanwide Expeditions ...