Modern expeditions, base life, adventurers, and dispatches from the ice.
An international team of 93 researchers exploring the remote northwestern Weddell Sea accidentally discovered a previously uncharted 130-meter-long island, prompting updates to global navigation maps and raising new questions about hidden features beneath Antarctica's icy waters.
During the Antarctic summer of 2025/26, a comprehensive upgrade is underway for IceCube, the giant neutrino telescope located deep in the glacial ice near Amundsen–Scott Base at the South Pole, with Sweden contributing cables, new equipment, and logistical support.
The definitive retelling of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition and the crew's survival after the Endurance was crushed by pack ice.
Firsthand account of Scott's doomed 1910–1913 Terra Nova Expedition — often cited as the greatest travel book ever written.
Shackleton's own account of the Endurance expedition, written shortly after the crew's rescue.