Pole Turns 50
A mere 20 days after it was demonstrated that an airplane could land and take off from the South Pole, a small team of men...
Category : Back in the Day
The Old Antarctic Explorer’s Association Wants You
Its membership includes a scientist who first visited Antarctica nearly 60 years ago and officials from the National Science Foundation. The Old Antarctic Explorer’s Association...
Preserving Pole’s Past
Today’s South Pole is only the latest incarnation in a steady stream of historical watersheds. Countless reminders of past glories sit in glass displays and...
Martin A. Pomerantz
Martin A. Pomerantz, regarded by many as the father of South Pole astronomy, died Oct. 25, 2008, at his home in northern California, after a...
Outliving Expectations
Concluding 32 years of distinguished service for global communications, one of three aged communications satellites used to connect South Pole Station to the rest of...
Together Again
Morton Beebe and Geoffrey Lee Martin shared in the adventure of the International Geophysical Year more than 50 years ago. Now they’ve reunited to write...
Past Connections
Madey Ridge, located in Antarctica’s Pensacola Mountains near the Ronne Ice Shelf, is named for a teenager who played a critical role in the lives...
Saving Historic Sites
Climbing a mountain, rappelling down a crevasse, and preserving artifacts from two of the most famous explorers in human history, is not how Susanne Grive...
Byrd History
At approximately 80 degrees south latitude and 119 degrees west longitude, Byrd Surface Camp has supported science in West Antarctica for more than 50 years,...
RIP Edith “Jackie” Ronne
Antarctica’s First Lady, Edith “Jackie” Ronne, wife of the famed polar explorer Finn Ronne and the first American woman to visit the continent in the...
