September 18th, 2012

Calling all penguin lovers! The British Antarctic Survey posts a new penguin photo every day in its “Penguin of the Day” image gallery. The penguins are adorable and the photos are fantastic. See one or two you love? You can purchase the images as well! The Antarctic penguins await you here>> On the left, I’ve [...]

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August 17th, 2012

A U.S. research company recently found what it believes to be the wreckage of the ship Terra Nova off the coast of Greenland. The wooden ship sank in 1943 while on a supply mission. But it is best known as the ship that carried Robert Scott and his fellow explorers to Antarctica in 1910-1912 as [...]

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September 8th, 2011

I stumbled across this great video of Antarctica recently. I love how it shows so much of the beautiful scenery intermingled with what it is like to live there.

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February 6th, 2011

Ten years ago this month I was way down south traveling through Argentina and along the Antarctic Peninsula–one of the most amazing adventures of my life. In this photo still taken from a video, I’m standing at the ship’s rail as we sail past Cape Horn at the southern tip of Chile. The Cape is [...]

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