Robert Falcon Scott led an expedition aboard the ship ‘Terra Nova’ and Ernest Shackleton led one from the ship ‘Quest’—but neither explorer got to plant the first flag in the heart of Antarctica ...

As Midwinter Day comes to Antarctica –- the darkest day of the year –- those spending the winter on the frozen continent will follow a tradition dating back more than a century to the earliest days of ...

A small fossil collected on an Antarctic island more than four decades ago is a tail vertebra of a titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur that roamed Antarctica roughly 83 million years ago, according to a ...

The age of Antarctic exploration was one of those rare chapters in history where curiosity pushed people into conditions that most of us could barely imagine. Explorers set out into freezing, ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Antarctica is renowned for its extreme cold; yet liquid water occurs at the base of ...

The first dinosaur fossil found on the Antarctic continent has been described scientifically. The fossil, a vertebra, was ...

A long-line of Pensacola aviators have visited the Antarctic, including both the first man to fly there and the first man to land there. Antarctic geographical features named after ...