History
Did you know that Erik the Red gave Greenland its iconic name? In a genius move to attract Norse set...
Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance expedition (1914-1917) is regarded as one of polar history’s great...
Antarctica is a fascinating, mysterious place. Discovered less than 200 years ago by Charles Wilkes,...
Englishmen, Russians and Norwegians stand at the forefront of polar exploration during the “Heroic...
Visiting the gravesite of Sir Ernest Shackleton is an emotional stop on an Antarctic cruise that...
The same trip to the Arctic today and a hundred years ago are two drastically different things. ...
This is the first post in a series of short overviews of the expeditions and people who have contributed...
At the same time as Roald Amundsen has moved toward the South Pole, Robert Falcon Scott was on the...
After Bellingshausen’s expedition the active exploration of Antarctic territories has begun. In ...
At the beginning of XX century several expeditions have made their way to the mountain ranges and...
After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen and Scott the exploration of Antarctica has continued...
Nowadays people travel in the Arctic aboard massive icebreakers with reinforced hulls. But it wasn’t...
Commercial Whaling in the Arctic is reported to have begun in the 1730’s, as Dutch and English explorers...
