Having long dreamed of Antarctic expeditions, writer and adventurer Blair Braverman finally makes it to the White ...

Steve Evans is a reporter on The Canberra Times. He's been a BBC correspondent in New York, London, Berlin and Seoul and the ...

Some Antarctic speed records are "the least slow in a limited pool" of skiers, but beating Christian Eide's 2011 time brought ...

For a taste of the frozen continent made legend by names such as Scott, Amundsen, Shackleton and Mawson, you have to venture ...

Norwegian Roald Amundsen becomes the first explorer to reach the South Pole, beating his British rival, Robert Falcon Scott.

His actions, however, earned him widespread support across the Arab world, with many hailing him as a hero. Source: Wikipedia Roald Amundsen's historic expedition to the South Pole was a monumental ...

Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine empire is damaged by an earthquake. 872: John VIII elected as Catholic Pope. 1476: ...

Our obsession with the Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton is emblematic of a problematic tendency: that of celebrating ...

North is north, right? Well, yes and no. There is more than one north pole (and for that matter more than one south pole). As ...

The Dutch changed the course of South African history, culture, and identity the moment they first stepped foot in what is now Cape Town. The history of the Dutch in South Africa is a two-sided coin.

This is 125 years after the first base came up there during the Southern Cross Expedition (1899) - 12 years before the South Pole was conquered by a Norwegian explorer, Ronald Amundsen on December ...