Antarctica

A discovery that shows life 90 million years ago near the South Pole may also point to what lies ahead

Never mind the Amazon, or even the Antarctic. Northern Canada is the global epitome of undefended territory.

McNeil recalls her days as writer-in-residence with the British Antarctic Survey

‘Why wouldn’t I want to walk 300 km at minus 50 pulling my own sled? That sounds like a good time to me’

By Gabrielle Walker

He’d spent his life flying around the world—he even married his wife on a flight

Isn’t it time for local cuisine to emerge from the south polar region?

It is exciting to see the octogenarian Roland Huntford fighting back against the three decades of revisionism and carping that followed upon the publication of his 1979 book Scott and Amundsen. The book may be more familiar as The Last Place on Earth, which is the title it was given after a mini-series by that name was produced from it. When Scott and Amundsen was published, in the face of threats from imperial nostalgiacs and family members of Robert Falcon Scott, it was seen as the final nail in the coffin of Scott’s reputation.

Five crates of Mackinlay’s and two cases of brandy were found in 2006, buried in the Antarctic