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On Monday, 32-year-old British army officer and physiotherapist Preet Chandi became the first woman of color to complete an unsupported expedition to the South Pole. Chandi, who traveled 700 miles …

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In February of 2018, three Latvian geologists – Kristaps Lamers, Maris Krievans and Janis Karuss – went to the Antarctic in a historic expedition.Antarctica contains the largest modern-day ice shields that hold most of the world’s freshwater.The exped…

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The geologist and explorer Douglas Mawson led the Australasian Antarctic Expedition from 1911 to 1914. Comprising 31 men, including photographer Frank Hurley, it charted large segments of the east Antarctic coastline, and investigated sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island and the Southern Ocean. The party arrived at Commonwealth Bay in March 1912. Mawson lost two men – Belgrave Ninnis and Xavier Mertz – on an expedition to map part of the coastline, but survived an epic return journey alone to the…

Herbert George Ponting, Cape Evans, Antarctica, 1911. Herbert George Ponting is best known as the expedition photographer for Captain Scott’s Expedition to the South Pole (1910–1913), capturing some of the most enduring images of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

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Among those pictured is American Robert Edwin Peary, a former Navy commander turned explorer, who claimed to be first to the North Pole, though this has now been largely discredited.