Sentence examples for expeditions to the antarctic from inspiring English sources

The event also highlighted gaps in how expeditions to the Antarctic are permitted by national authorities.

It was rediscovered by a German expedition in 1898, and Norwegian expeditions to the Antarctic in the 1920s claimed it for Norway as a potential whaling station.

Speyer, a naturalised British subject who also bankrolled the London underground and Scott's expeditions to the Antarctic, personified one of the minor tragedies of the war through his German background and connections.

A breakdown of last year's figures shows about $460bn was spent on one-of-a-kind travel adventures such as expeditions to the Antarctic or bespoke safaris, while $170bn was spent on the more typical trappings of wealth: designer clothes and handbags.

As much an adventurer as a scientist, Mr. Watson spent much of his life heading for remote regions of the globe, leading expeditions to the Antarctic, the Kalahari, Madagascar and Indonesia in search of isolated peoples and what he called "the soft edges of science" — paranormal phenomena like the fabled psychic surgery practiced in the Philippines.

Working in collaboration with Students on Ice, an organization that leads learning expeditions to the Antarctic and the Arctic, this chapter describes a prototype learning module, based on climate change, and a prototype gaming component for the Atlas.

It belonged to my grandfather, who went with Scott on his first expedition to the Antarctic.

The New Yorker, February 1 , 1982P. 38 A SUMMARY REPORT OF THE YELCHO EXPEDITION TO THE ANTARCTIC, 1909-10.

Even the later historical tales – on Scott's final expedition to the Antarctic, the loss of the Titanic, the life of Samuel Johnson – draw on personal material.

The dean of Papua's photographers, however, was an Australian, Frank Hurley (1885-1962), best known for his images of Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated expedition to the Antarctic in 1914.

His first expedition to the Antarctic had been mounted in 2008 to mark the centenary of Shackleton's "Nimrod" journey of 1908-09.