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Category Archives: Antarctic
History of Antarctica
Irish explorer Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton and two members of his expedition team beside a Union Jack within 111 miles (178 km) of the South Pole Hulton Archive / Getty Tuesday, Dec. 01, 2009 Antarctica By Kristi Oloffson On Dec. 1, 1959, representatives from a dozen countries, including the U.S., Japan and the [...]
South Pole Anniversary
South Pole anniversary final week: comment by Mark Langridge (Correne Coetzer) Leader of the only team who retraced Scott’s route during the 2011-12 Antarctic season, Mark Langridge told ExplorersWeb that each day he, Kevin Johnson and Paul Vicary thought of Scott and his team.The modern explorers arrived Cape Evans, the original start point, on November [...]
Dark Lake Untouched by Light for More Than 20 Million Years
Scientists close to entering Vostok, Antarctica’s biggest subglacial lake By Marc Kaufman, Published: January 31 After drilling for two decades through more than two miles of antarctic ice, Russian scientists are on the verge of entering a vast, dark lake that hasn’t been touched by light for more than 20 million years. Scientists are enormously excited [...]
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Greater Glory: Why Scott Let Amundsen Win the Race to the South Pole
In the race to the South Pole, explorer Robert F. Scott refused to sacrifice his ambitious science agenda By Edward J. Larson | Friday, May 27, 2011 | 2 Permanent Address: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=greater-glory SIDE TRIP: One of Scott’s 32 expedition members sleds past a massive ice structure named Castle Berg, off the shore of Ross Island, Antarctica. Image: Corbis The history [...]