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The Irish explorer and his crew set out to achieve the first land crossing of Antarctica, but Endurance did not reach land and became trapped in dense pack ice, forcing the 28 men on board to eventually abandon ship

Expedition director hails find of largely intact vessel as ‘milestone in polar history’

"This is a milestone in polar history"

Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance, not seen since it was crushed by sea ice and sunk off the coast of Antarctica, has been found intact and is 'by far the finest wooden shipwreck'

HMS Protector handed over welcome supplies of fresh food to 21 scientists from Ukraine.

The Polar Star, commissioned in 1976, breaks its old record by reaching the Bay of Whales on Feb. 17.

A seal wearing a helmet with an antenna might look unusual, but eight Weddell seals, each with a 580g monitoring device on their heads, have been helping Japanese researchers survey the waters under the thick ice sheet in Antarctica. Tapped for a research project between March and November 2017 -…

Environmental scientists see flora, fauna and phenomena the rest of us rarely do. In this series, we’ve invited them to share their unique photos from the field.

A humpback whale, likely lured by a trawling net capturing masses of Antarctic krill, became entangled last month and died in the Southern Ocean. Three dead juveniles were caught in the same company's krill nets last year.

Strategic and scientific motivations are not always neatly separable, but it’s clear Australia’s renewed interest in Antarctica is spurred in part by China

The federal government’s major package of new funding for Australia’s Antarctic program, announced on Tuesday, promises an additional A$804.4 million over the next decade.