Ghosts and spectres are not only seen in the Western world, especially on Halloween. The Arctic indigenous peoples also see the dancing Northern Lights as spectral beings. (Photo: Michael Wenger) The Polar Retrospective looks at stories of the past week that are...
An artistic view of the Palmer Station in Antarctica. Image: Chloe DaMommio, John H. Postlethwait and Thomas Desvignes / NSF The mixed gender of scientific stations raises a number of questions about relations between men and women, issues for which the overwintering...
New Zealander Hollie Woodhouse on the Greenland ice sheet in May 2018. Image: New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust Inspiring Explorers Expedition / Keith Parsons Extreme environments, such as the poles, would shape a personality type that faces hardships rather than...
This study is partly based on the life of the French scientific base in the Kerguelen archipelago. Here photo taken on the summit closest to the base (Mont du Château) in winter. Image: Camille Lin The personnel of the scientific bases is very diverse, a sort of...
