Last week, on a cold winter evening I was served piping hot food — soft rotis, flavourful aloo ki sabzi (potato curry) and ...

Showa Station, Antarctica (Jiji Press)—The Japanese icebreaker Shirase arrived at Showa Station, Japan’s Antarctic research base, on Tuesday. The Shirase berthed at a point about 120 meters off East ...

Operation Highjump, launched in 1946, was a U.S. naval expedition to Antarctica led by Rear Admirals Richard E. Byrd and Richard H. Cruzen. Its objectives were to train military personnel in extreme ...

13 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a picture of a research vessel positioned near a tall, sheer-faced ice shelf and makes a series of claims about Antarctica. Its caption reads ...

Qantas is investigating a mechanical issue that forced a flight to be diverted mid-air while over Antarctica on Christmas Day. QF63 departed from Sydney shortly before 10am on Wednesday and was ...

Let's take a look back at the year in some of the editorial cartoons featured this year in The Columbus Dispatch.

“First it was sealers, then whalers, then researchers, so it is the perfect encapsulation of the history of Antarctica,” Bernado told me during our visit to Deception, which has now found ...

In a separate incident on Christmas Day another Qantas flight to South Africa was suddenly turned around four-and-a-half hours into its flight as it neared to coast of Antarctica. Emergency crews ...