Late by almost a century, cartographic immortality is being accorded the dogs and ponies who bore much of the burden, and in most cases gave their all, in the 1911-12 race between the Norwegian Roald ...

In 1911, two groups of explorers set out to be first to reach the South Pole. One claimed victory, and the other perished on the return trip. Ross MacPhee of the American Museum of Natural History and ...

In the early days of the 20th Century, with so much of the world already mapped, Antarctica, a freezing, distant, continent with no native human population, remained the last unconquered wilderness.

What was the secret of Amundsen's success at the South Pole? As Sian Flynn explains, the devil's in the detail. In 1911, Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Captain Roald Amundsen set off from their ...

In 1905, when he was preparing to sail out of Gjoa Haven in Canada's High Arctic, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen buried a few artifacts beneath a cairn. Those artifacts, among them a photo of a ...

Roald Engebreth Gravning Amundsen of Norway took pride in being referred to as "the last of the Vikings." A powerfully built man of over six feet in height, Amundsen was born into a family of merchant ...

Twenty-five years ago, I helped put together an international festival in Japan to celebrate the spirit of exploration. The project was the brainchild of Yuichiro Miura, the man who had once skied ...

Antarctica HORROR: How explorer ‘ate DOGS to survive during race for science' AN EXPLORER who travelled to Antarctica ate his own working dogs in a bid to survive the harsh conditions and beat off ...

Roald Amundsen showed up in Antarctica with the cutting-edge in polar technology; Inuit clothes, sleds and igloos You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an ...