Commander Shinn, a veteran naval aviator who planned and executed the flight, touched down at the South Pole for the first ...

Antarctica is a harsh, uninhabited (by humans) land, which means food can be hard to find. Here are some of the different ...

The answer goes back nearly 100 years just after the heroic days of Antarctic exploration, when a man known as the “Last Viking” was nearly toppled by a toothache. Roald Amundsen was born on ...

"Humans have always brought their own interests to Antarctica," he says. In 1911, Roald Amundsen planted the Norwegian flag at the South Pole, where no one had set foot before. With this ...

Scott would later lose the race for the South Pole against Norwegian Roald Amundsen, reaching it weeks after Amundsen and dying of starvation and exposure on his return journey. “For a joint ...

Named after Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is the southernmost year-round research station in the world and operated by the U.S. National Science Foundation.

With Roald Amundsen, it’s hard to choose just one. The Norwegian titan of ice went everywhere from the South Pole to … well, the North Pole. Here are eight things to know about his storied ...

This week, dozens of brave revelers — the prime minister of Norway among them — are converging on the South Pole to celebrate the historic trek of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen ...

Karen Kylleso accomplished the feat overnight between Monday and Tuesday, 114 years after fellow Norwegian and polar explorer Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach the South Pole.

The answer goes back nearly 100 years just after the heroic days of Antarctic exploration, when a man known as the “Last Viking” was nearly toppled by a toothache. Roald Amundsen was known as ...