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By Business Insider on Dec 1, 2021 in: Travel
In 1956, the US Navy managed to accomplish what many had thought was impossible — landing an aircraft on the Antarctic ice.
By Engadget on Jul 22, 2019
One week after a "technical snag" forced the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) to delay the launch of its Chandrayaan-2, the lunar mission launched today. It appears to be back on track, and if all goes well, it will be India's f...
By Ellen Dean Author on Feb 23, 2018 in: non-fiction
Experience Life At The Coldest And Most Isolated Place On EarthNew York, NY, November 11, 2017 ― Imagine, for a moment, spending one year at the bottom of the world, in 100-below-zero temperatures. One couple chose to not only imagine it,...
By kiwi-travel-writer on May 12, 2016 in: Photos, travel
As well as riding the rails recently, in Christchurch New Zealand, I also rode a caterpillar: no, not the turn-into-a-butterfly type caterpillar but an electric one in the city’s Botanic Gardens – this is Caterpillar Garden Tour is one of...
Filed under: Etc., Videos, Off-Road Meet Manon Osservoort. She's a theater actress from the Netherlands, but she's better know as Tractor Girl. That's because she's undertaken an epic transcontinental journey in an agricultural tractor that started...
By Humour, Ideas and Opinions on Jan 19, 2014
Congratulations to Lewis Clarke on reaching the South Pole. Sixteen-year-old Lewis Clarke, a british school boy has become the youngest person to trek to the Antarctic landmark, in the South Pole. Read more...http://news.uk.msn.com/in-pictures/britis...
By Gravestone pix .com on Jan 16, 2012 in: People
A single white rose is to be left at the Scott statue in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard to mark the centenary of Scott's ill fated expedition to the South Pole on the 17th January 1912. [[ This is an article summary. Please visit gravestonepix.com for...