What particularly interested Cameron—himself a pioneer in underwater and deep-ocean filmmaking technology —were the custom ...

One of the world's most vast and mysterious land masses, Antarctica is a remote and fragile environment you can generally ...

Before reaching their destinations, planes do everything they can to avoid crossing the South Pole, but why are they so ...

US President Donald Trump has slashed tens of millions in emergency funds, says a senior former diplomat who wrote state policy for the white continent. As China and Russia announce plans to build new ...

Being at water level with floating ice, swimming penguins and visiting seals ... by gravity known to have reached 320 km/h. Antarctica’s South Pole has only one sunrise (at the September equinox ...

Funding for the National Science Foundation, which finances research at US bases on the icy continent, has already been ...

If you find yourself in the right season, you can fly to the South Pole from Cape Town or Punta Arenas ... pack your costumes in case you’re brave enough for a polar plunge. Gentoo Penguin, Antarctica ...

It overlooks a colony of Adelie penguins, and scientists who ... especially given their primary goal of reaching the South Pole. Even in the Antarctic summer, their first season of explorations ...

“The US operates the region’s largest station, McMurdo, and the most geopolitically significant: the South Pole,” said Muntean, who helmed the US Antarctic division when the emperor penguin ...

Going to the South Pole is something you never do completely independently." Alongside Argentina, Australia, France, Norway, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, Chile stakes a claim in Antarctica ...

One of the biggest misconceptions about penguins is that they live on ice. Their name conjures up images of the South Pole and long marches through the Antarctic winter. In fact, only 2 of the 17 ...