Antarctica's nearest neighbour is the tip of South America, although this is still around 1,000km away. It would take over two days to reach it by boat. The Geographic South Pole is the most ...

Sue Halliwell marks the 150th anniversary of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s birth by tracing his ill-fated British ...

bringing to life the remarkable survival story of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated 1914 Antarctic expedition. The film, from National Geographic Documentary Films, combines restored archival ...

Arecent study conducted by University of Florida geologists and geographers has shed new light on the effects of climate change on Antarctic ice shelves. It found that while there has been broad ice ...

A cabin aboard the National Geographic Explorer. Assuming the weather conditions allow the schedule to hold, over the next three days, the ship sails around Antarctic Sound and the waters ...

The November trip was groundbreaking for National Geographic-Lindblad Expeditions—which had never before offered flights to or from Antarctica—only sailing to what is still considered one of ...

The competition challenged students to create a unique "Perins flag" to be sent to Antarctica, and now their efforts have reached ...