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Exploration

July 2024

  • A portrait of Matthew Flinders in his naval uniform

    Matthew Flinders, the flute-playing, cat-loving explorer who circumnavigated Australia, is going home – but what of his envoy Bungaree?

    As the British navigator is reburied with pomp and ceremony in his village church, Aboriginal Australians call for respect for the ‘incredibly brave’ man who made the voyage possible
  • The Endurance enclosed in ice in October 1915

    Shackleton’s wrecked Endurance to get extra protection

    Ship that sank in 1915 is intact on the bed of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica and will be preserved in situ
  • Peter Bottomley speaks in the House of Commons in 2021.

    Brief letters
    Sketchy reporting of House of Commons debates

    Brief letters: Parliamentary intelligence | Don’t jinx Thursday’s vote | Election night tunes | Explorer’s reburial | Spike Milligan

June 2024

  • A stained glass window depicting Matthew Flinders in a church

    Explorer ‘who named Australia’ to be reburied in Lincolnshire village where he was born

    Hundreds to attend Donington service for Matthew Flinders, whose remains were found during digging for HS2
  • Matthew Henson with photo of Robert Peary

    The Explorers: shining a light on the diverse men and women forgotten by history

    The history of exploration has mostly been told through the eyes of white men but a new book aims to remember the people of colour and women who were also integral
  • Mount Everest.

    ‘It doesn’t make any sense’: new twist in mystery of Mount Everest and the British explorers’ missing bodies

    A hundred years ago, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine set off to conquer the summit. Mallory’s body was later discovered, but now the remains of both are nowhere to be found. Who moved them?

May 2024

  • Robert Ballard speaking at a conference in California.

    The age of extinction
    I discovered the wreck of the Titanic – but seeing these vents in the sea floor was far more exciting

  • Sir Paul Marshall speaking at an event

    GB News joint owner loses fight over £34m of secretly salvaged silver

April 2024

  • A ribbon sawtail fish in the Atlantic Ocean at a depth of around 1,000 metres. Photograph: Nature Picture Library/Alamy

    The Audio Long Read
    Radioactive waste, baby bottles and Spam: the deep ocean has become a dumping ground – podcast

    The ocean’s depths are not some remote alien realm, but are in fact intimately entangled with every other part of the planet. We should treat them that way. By James Bradley

March 2024

  • A Deep Sea Viperfish

    The long read
    Radioactive waste, baby bottles and Spam: the deep ocean has become a dumping ground

  • 2024-02-28 Deena So'Oteh The Observer Submarines update

    Deep sea exploration: what’s it like to take a trip on a submersible?

January 2024

  • Underwater archaeologist Marc-André Bernier inspects a seamen’s chest on Erebus

    Race against time to unlock secrets of Erebus shipwreck and doomed Arctic expedition

    Hundreds of discoveries made on Sir John Franklin’s ships, but storm damage makes wrecks increasingly dangerous

November 2023

  • The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds seen to the right of the Milky Way over the Tasman sea in Victoria state, Australia.

    ‘Violent colonialist’ Magellan is unfit to keep his place in the night sky, say astronomers

    Indigenous peoples already had their own names for the galaxies named after the 16th-century Portuguese explorer

September 2023

  • US explorer rescued after spending more than a week in Turkish cave – video

    Mark Dickey, 40, developed stomach problems while examining the depths of the Turkish cave

August 2023

  • Lt Cdr Graham Gore

    Lost photographs of doomed Arctic explorers to be auctioned – in pictures

    Images taken in 1845 of Sir John Franklin and his crew on the ill-fated HMS Erebus and Terror – believed lost until recently – are to go under the hammer at Sotheby’s in London

June 2023

  • The Titan submersible launching from its platform.

    We were afraid for the Titan five. But this story generated an uglier emotion, too: excitement

    Bryony Clarke
    Passengers aboard the sub lost on a dive to the Titanic became characters in a tragic drama. The rest of us were spectators, says Guardian assistant letters editor Bryony Clarke
  • Digital scan of the Titanic

    Billionaires and the Titanic: the allure of extreme expeditions

    The more adventurous among the world’s wealthiest take trips to the edge of space and Antarctica in their stride
  • OceanGate Expeditions’ Titan submersible.

    Missing Titanic submarine: US and Canadian teams search for tourist vessel

    Race against time to find craft that went missing on Sunday with five people onboard, including British billionaire

May 2023

  • Frederick Cook was a successful adventurer, but he may have faked his most famous exploit.

    Was ‘the first man to reach the North Pole’ a fraud?

    Frederick Cook claimed to have reached the top of the world, but a new book says he was lying

March 2023

  • Infant Buddha

    Could a Ming dynasty Buddha found near an Australian beach rewrite history?

    The origins of the 15cm statue, verified as authentic on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow, remain a mystery. Could it have been left there by 15th-century Chinese explorers?
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