British fishermen have been allowed to set their fishing nets in the Russian part of the Barents Sea for almost 70 years. (Photo: Archive) In a meeting on March 6, 2024, the Russian Federation Council approved the end of the fisheries agreement between the former USSR...
Airships have been around for more than 100 years. Zeppelins, airships and other types of flying machines filled with lighter-than-air gases have enabled slow, steady travel over oceans and other areas of the world that were inaccessible to most short-range aircraft....
While the flagship of the British polar research program RRS “Sir David Attenborough” is still on its way to its new Antarctic season, funding for maintenance and modernization has already been awarded in London. Image: Jamie Anderson, British Antarctic...
The volcanic South Sandwich Islands in the middle of the Southern Ocean are getting a four-part stamp series, of which Part 2 has now been released, featuring the islands of Bristol, Montagu and Saunders and an animal special to the island on it. Image: Pobjoy Mint...
At Point Wild stands a bronze bust of Captain Luis Pardo, who on August 30, 1916, brought his ship “Yelcho” close enough to the rugged coast of Elephant Island for Shackleton to pick up his 22 men. Now there is a second bust in a slightly more accessible...
