Acclaimed science writer and explorer David Quammen first came near the virus while he was traveling in the jungles of Gabon, accompanied by local men whose village had been devastated by a recent outbreak.
The island, where the explorer Ernest Shackleton found refuge, is one of the most least-visited places on Earth.
The announcement by UK Oil and Gas Investments (UKOG), a small independent explorer, is certainly dramatic: the discovery of a vast supply of oil 3,000ft below the commuter belt landscape.
FRA have created an interactive data explorer allowing users to examine the survey findings.
After achieving their goal of reaching explorer Douglas Mawson's huts, our intrepid explorers became stuck in sea ice as they tried to return.
Many will have encountered the Channel 4 documentary Don't Look Down, featuring James Kingston, a free-runner turned explorer, who can be seen all over the internet hanging one-handed from construction cranes and doing somersaults in precarious places.
First it was horses now bulldozers' In 1867 the Scottish-born explorer Francis Cadell disembarked with 20 horses (and a good many more guns) on the Liverpool river in his three-month search for a capital for the northern Australian colony.
It is here that Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan made landfall in 1520, encountering the tall Tehuelche tribesmen whom he called Patagones, after a mythical character in a chivalric tale, leading to the region's name.
I remember reading about [electro-industrial pioneers] Skinny Puppy making albums, about huge dramas and houses burning down and heroin overdoses … it would be an incredible drain for them, like an explorer getting lost in the Amazon with dangers and threats …" he pauses briefly for breath.
In the 1850s Scottish explorer John Rae discovered, after interviewing Inuits, that Franklin died in 1847 after his ships had been trapped in the ice for two years.
Not long before before the Toronto arrests, a well-respected local explorer, Neil Ta, announced he was retiring from rooftopping precisely because of this behaviour: Something fundamentally changed when it became less about just going up and having a good time with friends and more about who can take the photo of the other person in the most precarious situation.
