A new map of the South Orkney Islands has been released by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) – the first UK published, ...

Circle a country or region by sea and you will experience its changing character in a way no other trip can rival ...

Despite Antarctica not belonging to any state, as many as seven countries have made historical territorial claims on it.

Australia's Antarctic territory represents the largest sliver of the ice continent. For decades, Australian scientists have ...

For nearly a month the French territory of Amsterdam Island in the southern Indian Ocean has been engulfed in flames. Located ...

At a time when knowledge of the world was fragmented and based on travelers’ and merchants’ accounts, one man set out to ...

Look up this week for February’s full snow moon and to catch the last glimpse of a visible parade of planets in the night sky ...

A remote island that is part of France's French Southern and Antarctic Lands in the Indian Ocean has seen half of its ...

Only a few expedition cruise companies offer trips with an opportunity to ski in Antarctica. Here's what it's like to see a ...

Sue Halliwell marks the 150th anniversary of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s birth by tracing his ill-fated British ...

A Cretaceous-era skull found on Vega Island, Antarctica, has been confirmed as a member of the same order as ducks and geese, ...