Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is taking aim at wide swaths of the federal government, which could mean cuts to research and U.S. expeditions in Antarctica. With programs' ...

Also heading south was the well-advertised British Antarctic Expedition, under the command of Captain Robert Falcon Scott. Amundsen was keenly conscious of his rival, as his September 12 diary ...

Boric arrived at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Friday, where the temperature sat at more than 20 degrees below zero. The president's trip was meant to reinforce Chile's claim to ...

From there she boarded a plane with skids for landing gear, landing on the ice at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station more than 800 miles inland. “It really is the most remote place in the ...

On October 18, 1911 Amundsen's entourage set out from the Bay of Whales, on Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf, for their final drive toward the pole. His British counterpart, Robert Scott, dependent on ...

Scott returned south aboard 'Terra Nova' in 1910-12. Beaten to the Pole by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, Scott died alongside the Polar party on the return journey across the ice.

How do you do, Ollie? I’m Robert Falcon Scott. I set out in 1911 to be the first person to reach the South Pole. I knew that Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer ...