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Jean-Baptiste Charcot - French Antarctic Expedition 1903 - 1905 - Francais

In February of 2018, three Latvian geologists – Kristaps Lamers, Maris Krievans and Janis Karuss – went to the Antarctic in a historic expedition.Antarctica contains the largest modern-day ice shields that hold most of the world’s freshwater.The exped…

Shackleton’s party was not as prepared as he had hoped. They had plenty of dogs, but the only experienced dog driver had dropped out at the last minute. Though their overland trek required an average of 15 miles a day, only one person on the entire crew knew how to ski. They sailed to Buenos Aries, in South America, bought some more supplies, and hired a few more people, including the photographer, James Hurley. They also had an unwelcome visitor onboard, a stowaway named Pierce Blackboro…

A short account of polar explorer Roald Amundsen’s failed attempt to tame a polar bear cub he had bought in May 1920 from a trader in the Russian Far East appears today in the Barents Observe…

It is a profound experience to set eyes upon Antarctica for the first time. Breathtaking vistas, otherworldly wildlife and the journey itself leave an indelible mark on visitors. Here is a land of paradoxes: the world's biggest desert that is also the world's largest ice sheet, nearly two miles thick. Virtually unexplored just 150 years ago, this continent belongs to no nation, and is protected by an international treaty for peaceful scientific pursuit. Explore the “White Continent” in…

The Arctic, the Kapitan Khlebnikov, eighteen days and a bunch of different personalities with no wi-fi: here starts the adventure.I loved capturing with my Leica camera how the environment was shaping, completely natural shapes far from human activity a…

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Caribou grazing on the Arctic tundra, Thelon Wildlife Sanctuary, Northwest Territories and Nunavut, Canada. Galen Rowell/Corbis

Amidst the recent troubling news that Shell Oil has received conditional approval to drill in Arctic waters, a separate, critical victory for the larger Arctic ecosystem was overshadowed.

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