HX Expeditions has been leading adventure travel trips since 1896 and has more than 20 years of experience operating in ...

Polar adventurer Alan Chambers has teamed up with climate scientists to see if microplastics and nanoplastics have reached ...

LC-130s, which are outfitted with giant skis, are the backbone of the U.S. Antarctic Program and the sole reason that Amundsen-Scott South Pole station is able to function, Tom Ellis, director of ...

Explorer crosses South Pole in epic race across Antarctica. Two men are dragging heavy sleds over the frozen continent's forbidding landscape in an extreme duel to make exploration history.

In 1911, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first to reach the South Pole. It was one of the most famous expeditions in history. No single country owns Antarctica.

Then there’s Amundsen-Scott, also known as “the South Pole Station” because it’s located on the Antarctic plateau at the geographic South Pole. The Ceremonial South Pole, an actual pole ...

The Antarctic Heritage Trust’s Inspiring Explorers Expedition to attempt to ski to the Geographic South Pole, has selected three candidates for the coming November challenge, which coincides ...

Geographic South Pole: Townsend photographed the True South flag alongside the US flag. Courtesy Lisa Minelli/True South Maldonado Base, Antarctica: The flag on display at Ecuador's Antarctic base.

As a clear demonstration of "the ability of man to advance" past 500 kilometers (311 miles) in Antarctica, the National Science Foundation Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is located at the ...

It’s not only the physical challenges, but also the mental side of living in Antarctica that would make a permanent human settlement there difficult. On 25 October 1991, I made my first trip to the US ...

Discover more about the continent of Antarctica with BBC Bitesize KS2 Geography. ... The Geographic South Pole is the most southerly point on Earth.