Antarctica

Network of marine protected areas ‘could help safeguard Antarctic penguins’ (Heather Lynch/Stony Brook University/PA)

Network of marine protected areas ‘could help safeguard Antarctic penguins’

January 20, 2021

Mollie Hughes has been passing on tips to cope with isolation (Mike Wilkinson/Beeline PR/PA)

Antarctic trek record-breaker offers isolation tips to help cope with lockdown

January 10, 2021

A worker on the roof of the Rothera Research Station

Hogmanay in Antarctica: Scots get ready to party in splendid isolation at the bottom of the world

December 28, 2020

The James Caird, used by the explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton to escape Antarctica (Ian Holdcroft/PA)

Shackleton-inspired store to open in London despite Covid pandemic

November 29, 2020

Mollie Hughes, who pulled a 105kg sledge across the Antarctic wastes, in temperatures as low as –45°C

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Mollie Hughes: How quiet girl who shunned adventure grew up to climb Everest – twice – before record-breaking Antarctic crossing

February 24, 2020

The Rothera British Arctic Station.

Meet the real Scots of the Antarctic

August 26, 2019

Embargoed to 0600 Monday March 13 Undated handout photo issued by the University of Southampton of the Autosub Long Range submersible named ÒBoaty McBoatfaceÓ which is to join scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) to study some of the deepest and coldest ocean waters on Earth.

Boaty McBoatface makes significant discovery on debut research mission

June 18, 2019