What many of us only dream about doing, three local women did as 2025 turned to 2026. They spent New Year’s in the Antarctic.

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

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

Today marks the day that the RRS Discovery launched from Dundee, soon to become the ship that would carry Captain Scott to the Antarctic.

A new scientific investigation challenges long-held assumptions about Shackleton’s Endurance, revealing that the ship may never have been suited for the extreme Antarctic conditions it faced.

New analyses by Oregon State University and Princeton University researchers of ancient ice from Antarctica and the air contained inside it are extending the history of Earth’s climate records and ...

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

Malcolm Byrne introduced a bill to the Dáil on Wednesday which would see Ireland join the Antarctic Treaty System ...

The rapid climate change we are experiencing today is mainly driven by the greenhouse gases we humans keep releasing into the ...

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