Antarctica
A photograph of an incredibly rare all-black penguin has been making the rounds on media outlets over the course of the last few weeks, thanks to Andrew Evans, contributing editor for National Geographic. Evans was able to get the fantastic shot after traveling 10,000 miles from Washington D.C. to Antarctica,… Read the rest
Remember all the fun cocktail conversations you initiated after being the first of your friends to read that polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s booze stash had finally been recovered after 100 years of being buried beneath the ice? Remember explaining, in painstaking detail, that the whiskey was still good and… Read the rest
This week’s Friday Photo winner is Stacey Murray for this amazing shot of a kayaker negotiating ice burgs in the Weddell Sea on the Peninsula of Antarctica. Stacey submitted her photo from Palmer Station, Antarctica. We’re glad to see we have some fans at the end of the earth! … Read the rest
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On January 2nd, 2010 polar explorer Eric Larsen reached the South Pole, completing the first leg of an epic three-part journey that will take him to the North and South Geographic Poles as well as to the summit of Mount Everest – all in one year.
After 47 days of… Read the rest
On January 1st 2010, a team of Australian researchers located remains of the first airplane ever taken to Antarctica.
Interestingly, the plane, which was brought to the continent by Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson in 1912, was never meant to make it off the ground. Mawson had brought the single-propeller… Read the rest
British explorer Robert Falcon Scott left more than a legacy after his doomed 1910-12 expedition to the South Pole. He also left two blocks of butter.
The New Zealand butter was still intact when conservators for the Antarctic Heritage Trust discovered it in stables attached to Scott’s expedition Hut at… Read the rest
We tend to focus mostly on human powered adventures here at Wend, but this one was just too crazy to pass up: the Netherlands to Antarctica by tractor. WTF? No, we’re not making this up.
Dutch actress Manon Ossevoortis is the adventurer behind the Southpole Expedition, riding a tractor from… Read the rest
Antarctica has been called a “Galapagos in the making”. In fact, the Antarctic seas and its islands were recently deemed more biodiverse than the Galapagos Islands. But for both places, the exotic and intriguing environments have attracted flocks of tourists, and with them, a large threat to the fragile ecosystems.… Read the rest
Well, the record was sweet while it lasted.
Last month, American Todd Carmichael made the 700-mile trek from Antarctica’s Ronne Ice Shelf to the South Pole in 39 days, 7 hours and 49 minutes, setting a speed record for the journey. But, according to ExplorersWeb.com, a New York-based web site… Read the rest
On Sunday the BBC… Read the rest published a rather scary article regarding new research in West Antarctica where three important glaciers are putting more and more ice into the sea, causing great concern amongst environmental scientists. One of the glaciers in question, the Pine Island Glacier, is 30 kilometers wide and and
