West Antarctica’s “marine grounded” ice reflects this restless foundation. Unlike its eastern counterpart, it rests in a deep ...

Visiting Antarctica used to be a truly extraordinary trek. From just a few hundred explorers in the 1950s, to more than 120,000 tourists last year. Right now, tourism season is picking up again in ...

The recurring image of a toy submarine in the art of Reinhard Behrens transports us to his world, writes Susan Mansfield​ ...

Captain Robert Scott was the British Antarctic explorer who led an expedition to claim the South Pole in England’s honor.

Explorer's cabin had been used as a shed in Norway for most of a century — but now it's been brought back to his Irish birthplace and meticulously restored Ernest Shackleton on board the Endurance in ...

On Oct. 27, 1915, after being caught and crushed by packed ice for nine months in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica, Ernest ...

A museum dedicated to the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton has reopened in Co Kildare after a multi-million redevelopment which includes an iceberg-like extension. The Antarctic explorer, who was born ...

Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton's crew famously survived after the Endurance became stuck in ice in 1915. A researcher ...

Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton's crew famously survived after the Endurance became stuck in ice in 1915. A researcher says the ship was... Famed polar exploration ship Endurance not as strong as ...

Endurance is shown in the winter of 1915. The ship became stuck in ice and eventually sank. A new paper says it wasn’t as well-built as previously believed. (Frank Hurley | Scott Polar Research ...

Three weeks after explorer Ernest Shackleton ordered his men to abandon their ship, Endurance, in the fall of 1915, the vessel sank off the coast of Antarctica. Its fate has long been attributed to a ...

The Arctic may be warmer than the Antarctic, but the shifting ... but offered no other proof. In 2005, explorer Jim McNeill asked scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center and the Scott ...