The luxury polar explorer at the centre of the hantavirus outbreak docked at the Dutch port of Rotterdam on Monday, where ...

The hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius was ​due to dock in Rotterdam on Monday morning for disinfection, with Dutch ...

Now, researchers using ancient DNA analysis have successfully identified four of the members of the doomed expedition, ...

Roald Amundsen and Umberto Nobile, along with an international crew, completed the first verified crossing of the North Pole ...

While the success of Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett’s polar flight has been disputed, the former went on to accomplish ...

Viking® ( announced that its 2028–2029 expedition voyages are now open for booking, featuring newly released departure dates ...

British explorer, endurance athlete and motivational speaker Ben Saunders learned a lot about himself and his team during a record-breaking 1,801-mile Antarctic expedition to the South Pole and back.

The seven essays in Anne Fadiman’s new collection, “Frog and Other Essays” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) are not all amphibious in theme. While the title essay recalls the so-called life of her family’s ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The last time Greenland played a starring role in American foreign policy, the United States government sent a Marin millionaire on a secret mission. In the ...

MINSK, 3 February (BelTA) – Participants of the 18th Belarusian Antarctic expedition have started testing and commissioning new equipment at the station: a modern plant designed to treat sanitary ...

As one of four panels that will provide input to the steering committee of "Key Non-Polar Destinations Across the Moon to Address Decadal-level Science Objectives with Human Explorers," the Panel on ...

The North Pole, according to Erling Kagge, exists as a reductio ad absurdum. Having no longitude, it’s really no place at all. The same applies to the South Pole, of course. But unlike the South Pole, ...