The 10 latest articles on Polar & Frontier Histories come from 10 sources, published between Oct 18 and Nov 9.
People in these stories: Roald Amundsen (2)
Organizations: Severnaya Zemlya (2)
Places: Antarctica (3), South (2), US (2), Arctic Circle (2), Sweden (2), Ukraine (2)
A team of history documentary-makers are preparing for an ambitious bid to retrace the steps of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s most gruelling journey. The team, including TV historian Dan Snow, will attempt to traverse the island of South Georgia,…
by Tamika Johnson | Nov 1, 2026 | Monde de l'aviation, Histoire et légendes | 0 comments It was a Halloween evening, and the temperature outside was nearly 60 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. At 8:34 p.m. local time on 31 October 1956, a twin-engined Navy transport with skis bolted…
Nowadays, the town is home to a selection of empty buildings, largely preserved in the freezing conditions. But it is not completely quiet there - one man recently found himself in Pyramiden (named after the nearby pyramid-shaped mountain) and wrote in…
Understandably, the portion of the globe described by the Arctic Circle does not follow any specific criteria, separating contiguous areas potentially homogenous. Indeed, additional biophysical and other criteria have been progressively outlined to encompass a more homogenous region surrounding the…
Discover the origins of the names Arctic and Antarctica, tracing how ancient language, geography, and celestial references shaped these polar terms. The names Arctic and Antarctica describe two of the least populated regions on Earth, and both come from a…
One look at a map shows why: The country accounts for approximately 53% of the Arctic Ocean’s coastline, according to the Arctic Council, making it the world’s largest Arctic power in geographical terms. However, the stakes go well beyond geography, as…
It just seems that when you’ve got a globe—the whole world literally in your hands—you really begin to understand that all of this existence stuff didn’t just happen randomly. Remarkably, his original globe has remained at his Virginia…
The fate of Russia’s forests will affect the whole world, says Sophie Pinkham, a scholar and journalist who has spent years studying the forest and its significance in Russian history and culture. “Like the Amazon, Russia’s forests – about one-fifth of…
MOSCOW, October 21. /TASS Correspondents Maria Kartuz, Konstantin Malykh/. TASS correspondents visited the archipelago and gathered opinions about its discoverers. Why the discussion about the Pomors' early sites on Spitsbergen has faded away and how it may return to the scientific…
Home » News » The daring Dunedin Star rescue off the Skeleton Coast in 1942 In November 1942, the British Dunedin Star liner hits a reef off the Skeleton Coast. What follows is one of the most daring maritime rescues in history … All is…
Arctic/Antarctic exploration, deserts, highlands, and borderlands.
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