One Photographer’s Quest to Redefine the Shark
With his magnificent underwater images, Gerardo del Villar wants to rehabilitate the reputation of the ocean’s great ...
Marie Tharp pioneered mapping the bottom of the ocean 6 decades ago – scientists are still learning about Earth’s last frontier
Born on July 30, 1920, geologist and cartographer Tharp changed scientific thinking about what lay at the bottom of the ocean – not a featureless flat, but rugged and varied terrain.
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An otherworldly journey to the Falklands, South Georgia and Antarctica
Forgive me for starting with superlatives, but I have no choice. I’m not the first. In 1911, Roald Amundsen, the first explorer to reach the South Pole, wrote that the Queen Maud Range in ...
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I wanted to scatter Dad’s ashes in Antarctica. It didn’t go as planned
Yes, scattering ashes along the coast is technically illegal despite it being a common scene we see portrayed in shows and movies ... James Cook, Ernest Shackleton, Roald Amundsen and Robert ...
Must-see TV: Millie Bobby Brown's 'The Electric State,' Tom Petty doc top this week's watch list
The Electric State Film An orphaned teenager (Millie Bobby Brown) joins forces with an eccentric drifter (Chris Pratt) and a ...
I wanted to scatter Dad’s ashes in Antarctica. It didn’t go as planned
Will McGough thought he’d scatter his father’s ashes in Antarctica for a special tribute. But once there, he learned that ...
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The uncertainty of the future home of the Sundance Film Festival
Looking back, she was the perfect storm for feminists in one female package in a hyper-manly man culture, where even Ardern credits for inspiration Sir Ernest Shackleton ... the marauding business ...
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Falkland Islands and the saga of Sir Ernest Shackleton a century ago
On 3 June 1916, Stanley had ever seen so many people at the new Town Hall, to welcome Sir Ernest Shackleton who gave a brief account of his late expedition In March 1915 the Endurance was ...