In the Falkland Islands, the delivered vaccine is transferred to the British Antarctic Survey’s Twin Otter and flown to the Antarctic Peninsula. (Photo: BAS) The AstraZeneca vaccine was flown from RAF Base Brize Norton via Senegal to the Falkland Islands. After...
The RRS Discovery is located at Discovery Point in Dundee and is open for visitor tours. The RRS Discovery was built in the city in 1900 and was the ship that took Captain Scott on his first expedition to Antarctica. (Photo: Dundee Heritage Trust) The RRS Discovery...
About a third of the way of the flight, the plane crossed the coast of Antarctica on its way to Australia. (Photo: Qantas) A Qantas Dreamliner flew from Buenos Aires to Darwin on October 6, a 14,673-kilometre odyssey that took nearly 18 hours. The flight goes down in...
Staff observe the long-awaited sunlight on the roof of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station on September 23, 2021, as they now enter the six-month daylight period. (Photo: Lisa Minelli-Endlich) While last summer the Northern hemisphere had experienced record high...
A decanter from the wreck of HMS Erebus is recovered by a diver. (Photo: Parks Canada) Fieldwork planned for this year has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Archaeological work on HMS Terror and HMS Erebus, the two shipwrecks of the ill-fated Franklin...