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Antarctica holidays

February 2024

  • Laura Büllesbach in snow

    Experience
    Experience: I sort the post in Antarctica

    I have the nicest commute. I pass seals on an iceberg and penguins

January 2023

  • Ships carrying less than 500 passengers are permitted to make landings in Antarctica. The green vest identifies a staff member who plays an important role in interpretation as well as crowd control and environmental protection. The telephoto lens makes this ship look like it’s parked on the beach when in fact it is a safe distance offshore.

    Cruises, crowds and fragile ecosystems: the delicate dance of Antarctic tourism

    As the icy continent braces for a record summer, ecologists say more visitor caps and restrictions are needed to protect wildlife

April 2020

  • World of icePolar circle boat heading towards Esperanza,an Argentinian base on Antarctica.

    The good place
    Life on ice: what Esperanza Base in Antarctica can teach us about isolation

    Despite missing friends and celebrations, a community at the bottom of the world has learned to survive, even thrive

October 2019

  • An Adelie penguin walks past the bow of the Australian Antarctic Division’s chartered icebreaker the Aurora Australis.

    Au revoir Aurora Australis: 'It’s a tiny melting pot of humanity isolated in the Southern Ocean'

    For 30 years icebreaker Aurora Australia has carried researchers and artists to Antarctica. As it prepares for its final voyage, passengers and crew recall its legacy

June 2016

  • Antarctica tourism

    Antarctica's tourism industry is designed to prevent damage, but can it last?

    Companies must book pre-approved sites in advance to minimize the impact on the local environment but as the number of visitors keeps growing, some countries are clamoring for tighter regulation

February 2015

  • A sunny window seat that inspires literate beings to read.

    GrrlScientist
    New Books Party: Books that arrived recently

    GrrlScientist
    GrrlScientist: This week, I share my thoughts about two new books; one that argues for a radical new history of life on Earth, and the other is a newly revised field guide to diving in Antarctica

January 2015

  • Kamila Shamsie

    Weekend magazine travel special 2015
    Kamila Shamsie sails to Antarctica

  • Erebus Into the Unknown

    Erebus: Into the Unknown review – a too-brief true tale of Antarctic terror

October 2014

  • A backpack-mounted Google Trekker camera was used to map South Georgia

    Google Street View used to map Shackleton's island

    The remote island of South Georgia – where explorer Ernest Shackleton found refuge – is among nine new locations mapped by Google Trekker technology

July 2014

  • Winter in Antarctica

    How to survive a winter in Antarctica – in pictures

    Photographer and explorer Dr Alexander Kumar spent nine months at Concordia Station, where temperatures drop to -80C and your nearest neighbours are astronauts orbiting the Earth. Follow his journey through the worst winter in the world

April 2014

  • MARCH OF THE PENGUINS

    The case for language learning
    The Antarctic tour guide: my career in languages

  • rebecca Hunt

    Everland review – a compelling tale of lives stripped bare in Antarctica

March 2014

  • SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON at left at Ocean Camp in 1915

    Point of view
    What do the diaries of Shackleton and Scott reveal?

    Shackleton edited his diaries, but Scott didn't have that option – the difference proved to be significant. By Rebecca Hunt

January 2014

  • Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela

    Adventure holidays and trips for 2014: Latin America and the Caribbean

  • South pole

    Do you know your way around polar exploring in literature? - quiz

December 2013

  • Antarctica live
    Auld Lang Syne in the Antarctic as stranded adventurers await rescue

    30 passengers and crew on the MV Akademik Shokalskiy walk the gangplank – to fashion a makeshift helipad on the snow

  • Pictures from the past
    Shackleton's Endurance trapped in pack ice - a picture from the past

    The Shokalskiy expedition's current troubles in polar pack ice are reminiscent of Ernest Shackleton's legendary expedition to Antarctica (1914-1917) when the aptly named Endurance became trapped and was eventually crushed by pack ice in the Weddell Sea. The story of survival that followed is the stuff of legend

    • Antarctica live
      A postcard from the Antarctic coastline – video

    • GrrlScientist
      Cookie the Little Penguin at the Cincinnati Zoo | video

    • Børge Ousland: How I crossed Antarctica alone

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