In the southern summer of 1972/73, the Glomar Challenger was the first vessel of the international Deep Sea Drilling Project to venture into the seas surrounding Antarctica, confronting severe weather and ever-present icebergs. A Memory of Ice presents the science and the excitement of that voyage in a manner readable for non-scientists. Woven into the modern story is the history of early explorers, scientists and navigators who had gone before into the Southern Ocean. The departure of the Glomar Challenger from Fremantle took place 100 years after the HMS Challenger weighed anchor from Portsmouth, England, at the start of its four-year voyage, sampling and dredging the world’s oceans. Sailing south, the Glomar Challenger crossed the pat...
The Southern Cross Antarctic Expedition 1898-1900 is a largely forgotten chapter in Antarctic histor...
Photograph of the sailing ship Endurance trapped and crushed by ice in the Antarctic, 1915. "The lon...
The first crossing of Antarctica in 1957/58 by the Trans-Antarctic Expedition, led by Sir Vivian 'Bu...
"In the southern summer of 1972/73, the Glomar Challenger was the first vessel of the international ...
In 1911 the world was watching, waiting, hoping, attention focused on a desolate spot at the very en...
The first scientific exploration of the Antarctic dates to the end of the seventeenth century, when ...
An Empire of Ice presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration—placing the famed voyages ...
Not long after Shackleton watched his ship Endurance become trapped in the ice floes of the Weddell ...
James Cook in his voyage of 1774–1775 is generally credited with the discovery of the Antarctic. He ...
In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton set sail from London for Antarctica aboard the HMS Endurance. Having l...
Part of the Hurley collection of photographic prints.; Published in Argonauts of the south, 1925, fa...
The latest in a series of Great Geographical Discoveries was the finding of a southern ice continent ...
This is an excerpt from Ernest Shackleton's book, "The Voyage of the James Caird". It provides a fir...
message from Vivian Fuchs, who was now getting ready to head south. On 14 January 1956, nearly a yea...
John King Davis captained S.Y. Aurora on three voyages to Antarctica and on other sub-Antarctic crui...
The Southern Cross Antarctic Expedition 1898-1900 is a largely forgotten chapter in Antarctic histor...
Photograph of the sailing ship Endurance trapped and crushed by ice in the Antarctic, 1915. "The lon...
The first crossing of Antarctica in 1957/58 by the Trans-Antarctic Expedition, led by Sir Vivian 'Bu...
"In the southern summer of 1972/73, the Glomar Challenger was the first vessel of the international ...
In 1911 the world was watching, waiting, hoping, attention focused on a desolate spot at the very en...
The first scientific exploration of the Antarctic dates to the end of the seventeenth century, when ...
An Empire of Ice presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration—placing the famed voyages ...
Not long after Shackleton watched his ship Endurance become trapped in the ice floes of the Weddell ...
James Cook in his voyage of 1774–1775 is generally credited with the discovery of the Antarctic. He ...
In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton set sail from London for Antarctica aboard the HMS Endurance. Having l...
Part of the Hurley collection of photographic prints.; Published in Argonauts of the south, 1925, fa...
The latest in a series of Great Geographical Discoveries was the finding of a southern ice continent ...
This is an excerpt from Ernest Shackleton's book, "The Voyage of the James Caird". It provides a fir...
message from Vivian Fuchs, who was now getting ready to head south. On 14 January 1956, nearly a yea...
John King Davis captained S.Y. Aurora on three voyages to Antarctica and on other sub-Antarctic crui...
The Southern Cross Antarctic Expedition 1898-1900 is a largely forgotten chapter in Antarctic histor...
Photograph of the sailing ship Endurance trapped and crushed by ice in the Antarctic, 1915. "The lon...
The first crossing of Antarctica in 1957/58 by the Trans-Antarctic Expedition, led by Sir Vivian 'Bu...