“Endurance 22” expedition reaches target area in the Weddell Sea
The team of the “Endurance 22” expedition has arrived in the region of the Weddell Sea where the legendary Shackleton expedition ship “Endurance” had sunk.
The team of the “Endurance 22” expedition has arrived in the region of the Weddell Sea where the legendary Shackleton expedition ship “Endurance” had sunk.
The pandemic almost prevented the eight-man expedition team from returning from the Antarctic Peninsula – rescue came from an expedition tour operator.
In early February, the “Endurance22” expedition departs from Cape Town in a renewed attempt to locate and investigate the wreckage of the lost ship.
The AWI research icebreaker “Polarstern” is underway to learn more about the stability of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet from sediment samples during an 8-week expedition.
A good five days ahead of schedule, Harpreet Chandi becomes the first woman of color to reach the South Pole in a solo expedition.
Six expedition members left for Antarctica on December 3, 2021. The goal is to further restore the historic Mawson cabin.
“Xue Long 2”, China’s first Chinese-built polar icebreaker launched on China’s 38th scientific expedition to Antarctica.
Today, British Army officer Harpreet Chandi started her unassisted expedition to the South Pole.
The Polish Antarctic station AB Dobrowolski, abandoned 40 years ago, is to be reactivated.
FESCO has signed a new five-year contract with India’s Polar Institute to supply India’s Antarctic research stations.
The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust is planning an expedition to locate, survey and film the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s legendary ship “Endurance”.
Is the Antarctic Treaty robust enough to stop China? In the treaty, more than 50 states agreed not to exploit Antarctica economically or militarily.
The Polar Expeditions Classification Scheme (PECS) provides a contemporary characterization of polar travel by combining traditional and modern terminology into one label.
The future has already begun. Some rely on the use of the wind as a driving force and thus forego pulling sleds under their own power.
POLAR POD is a giant tower with a draft of 80 meters that will drift twice around Antarctica.
The Norwegians seem to have been born into polar skiing. Time and again they have laid great and innovative landmarks at the poles.
After the conquest of the South Pole by Roald Amundsen on 14 December 1911, the first crossing of the continent became the focus of interest.
While there have long been recognised classification systems in mountaineering, these are only rudimentary for sports ambitious ice journeys in polar regions.
Christoph Höbenreich shows in the 5-part series CIRCUS ANTARCTICA how the sports-oriented expedition at and around the South Pole has developed since its “conquest” in 1911.
Television channel ARTE shows online and on its TV channel an exciting and above all intimate side of a hardly visited region of Antarctica.
A huge iceberg broke off from the Antarctic ice sheet about two weeks ago. Photographs taken from the seafloor show an astonishing diversity of life.
India’s National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCPOR) has launched its 40th Antarctic expedition. The icebreaker started from Goa and is expected to arrive in Antarctica in 40 days.
Taking water samples from an Antarctic lake under 800 meters of ice requires days of drilling.
On February 14, 2020, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research cancelled the tender for the new procurement of the “Polarstern II”.