Amundsen developed a fascination with Antarctica from the time he first glimpsed its frozen terrain in 1897. Antarctica, a continent the size of Europe and Australia combined, had not yet been ...

Here are five I recommend: One of Antarctica’s (and Britian’s) most famous explorers, Robert Scott, meets a dark fate in this classic tale, written by a surviving member of Scott’s party ...

The Explorers Club recognizes SETI Institute Senior Research Scientist Dr. Dale Andersen with its Finn Ronne Memorial Award.

Some of the explorers below lived at the same time ... 1912-1917 Shackleton tries to cross Antarctica in the ship Endurance. 1963 The first woman in space was Valentina Tereshkova (USSR).

The US space agency NASA is tracking two British explorers on a 3,650 kilometers journey across Antarctica to learn ... placed in an alien environment. A famous example comes from the 1971 Apollo ...

What do we know about the sixth continent other than that it is the abode of penguins and polar explorers, and that endless icebergs move around its shores? The traveller who finds himself, not even ...

Locate Antarctica on globes ... Read some stories about famous explorers such as Robert Falcon Scott. Discuss what it means to be an explorer and why people are curious about their surroundings.