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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...