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The good place Life on ice: what Esperanza Base in Antarctica can teach us about isolation

Despite missing friends and celebrations, a community at the bottom of the world has learned to survive, even thrive

Published: 11 Apr 2020

Au revoir Aurora Australis: 'It’s a tiny melting pot of humanity isolated in the Southern Ocean'

For 30 years icebreaker Aurora Australia has carried researchers and artists to Antarctica. As it prepares for its final voyage, passengers and crew recall its legacy

Published: 6 Oct 2019

Antarctica's tourism industry is designed to prevent damage, but can it last?

Companies must book pre-approved sites in advance to minimize the impact on the local environment but as the number of visitors keeps growing, some countries are clamoring for tighter regulation

Published: 26 Jun 2016

GrrlScientist New Books Party: Books that arrived recently

GrrlScientist: This week, I share my thoughts about two new books; one that argues for a radical new history of life on Earth, and the other is a newly revised field guide to diving in Antarctica

Published: 27 Feb 2015

Published: 27 Feb 2015

Google Street View used to map Shackleton's island

The remote island of South Georgia – where explorer Ernest Shackleton found refuge – is among nine new locations mapped by Google Trekker technology

Published: 24 Oct 2014

How to survive a winter in Antarctica – in pictures

Photographer and explorer Dr Alexander Kumar spent nine months at Concordia Station, where temperatures drop to -80C and your nearest neighbours are astronauts orbiting the Earth. Follow his journey through the worst winter in the world

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Published: 1 Jul 2014

The case for language learning The Antarctic tour guide: my career in languages

Multilinguist Nikki Rickett leads groups around Antarctica, a job she wouldn't be able to do without her background in languages

Published: 17 Apr 2014
Everland review – a compelling tale of lives stripped bare in Antarctica

The Antarctic gives up its secrets at a price in Rebecca Hunt's compelling tale of extreme endurance, writes Helen Dunmore

Published: 6 Apr 2014

Point of view What do the diaries of Shackleton and Scott reveal?

Shackleton edited his diaries, but Scott didn't have that option – the difference proved to be significant. By Rebecca Hunt

Published: 22 Mar 2014

Adventure holidays and trips for 2014: Latin America and the Caribbean

Trek on a Caribbean island, chase lightning or swim with whales … There's no shortage of adventure in this part of the world

Published: 17 Jan 2014
Do you know your way around polar exploring in literature? - quiz

Ernest Shackleton reached the limit of his expedition to the south pole on 16 January 1909. Celebrate with a gruelling test on literature's coldest climes

Published: 16 Jan 2014

Antarctica live Auld Lang Syne in the Antarctic as stranded adventurers await rescue

30 passengers and crew on the MV Akademik Shokalskiy walk the gangplank – to fashion a makeshift helipad on the snow

Published: 31 Dec 2013
Pictures from the past Shackleton's Endurance trapped in pack ice - a picture from the past

The Shokalskiy expedition's current troubles in polar pack ice are reminiscent of Ernest Shackleton's legendary expedition to Antarctica (1914-1917) when the aptly named Endurance became trapped and was eventually crushed by pack ice in the Weddell Sea. The story of survival that followed is the stuff of legend

Published: 30 Dec 2013
Antarctica live A postcard from the Antarctic coastline – video

Documentary-maker Laurence Topham's video highlights from the beautiful Antarctic coastline

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Published: 23 Dec 2013
GrrlScientist Cookie the Little Penguin at the Cincinnati Zoo | video

GrrlScientist: What's cuter than Alok's hair? A baby penguin!

Published: 14 Dec 2013

- Børge Ousland: How I crossed Antarctica alone
  
  Published: 13 Dec 2013
- Australia culture blog Beautiful Antarctic landscapes belie a hard edge to life lived on the ice
  
  Published: 8 Dec 2013

Australia culture blog Antarctica, where blue ice buckles and cracks, and mountains float in the sky

John Kelly, artist-in-residence on the Aurora Australis, sleeps in an icy grave near Mawson station and dreams of Magritte

Published: 19 Nov 2013

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