And this St Patrick's Weekend, in the frozen winter of the southern continent, marine biologist and UCC graduate Gráinne ...

It's November 2024. Small red flags flap lazily in the breeze on the sea ice in front of Scott Base. They mark a safe route through the pressure ridges - where sea ice squashes up against the land and ...

Ukrainian polar explorers have raised the flag of the Azov National Guard Brigade near the Akademik Vernadsky station on Galindez Island. In doing so, members of the 29th Antarctic expedition have ...

While Qantas' flights don't touch down and land in Antarctica, they offer sightseeing tours in Boeing 787 Dreamliners before returning back to Australia. It's unclear what parts of Antarctica they fly ...

The oldest aircraft still flying for the Qantas Group is a Fokker 100 currently serving its regional QantasLink airline.

Flags designed by school students have also been on display at BAS stations in Antarctica. The Antarctica Day Flag Initiative is run by the UK Polar Network with school students designing flags to ...

Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font Friday became the first Latin American leader and the third worldwide to reach the South Pole, thus consolidating his country's commitment to Antarctica.

I am in Antarctica on a 10-day trip with Norwegian ... While the bucket and flag toilet set-up for the night was a little comical, watching a pod of humpbacks circle the island from a tent porch ...

“The south pole is different. It’s this twilight space ... and we’re going to lead humanity into space and plant the American flag on the planet Mars and even far beyond.” ...

The Vikram lander had touched down close to one of the oldest of these craters: the South Pole-Aitken Basin ... and the dozen US astronauts — who planted flags, hit golf balls, drove around ...

We unfurled our Antarctica flag at one point along the trail to commemorate our stepping onto our seventh continent on Wednesday morning, Nov. 27, 2024. The weather conditions were quite harsh, with ...