Category : Back in the Day

The recent discovery off the coast of Greenland of the remains of the SS Terra Nova, the ship that carried Briton Robert F. Scott and...

An international team of ham radio operators will take part in an expedition to a remote island that was once a regular stop for U.S....

The Antarctican Society started in Washington, D.C., in 1960. In just a few years, it grew from a local club to an organization with members...

It only took Clive Oppenheimer about 15 minutes to find a piece of history on the flanks of Antarctica’s southernmost active volcano. The volcanologist used...

A century after the end of the Terra Nova Expedition, a historic artifact from that era will be returned to its rightful place in Antarctica....

Planes and ships, tractors and skis, ponies and sled dogs, and even a hot air balloon: All manner of transportation has been tried and used...

A pair of campsites located high on the flanks of an active volcano in Antarctica – once used by British explorers a little more than...

A photo of McMurdo Station, circa December 1955, before there were any buildings, recently surfaced. The photo was taken by Freddie Spainhouer, a Navy photographer...

More than 110 years since it was built on the spit of land that would become known as Hut Point, Robert Falcon Scott’s first expedition...

Four former U.S. Navy service members recently received recognition in the role they played nearly 35 years ago in the recovery of more than 250...