The Antarctic Circle is the most southerly of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of Earth. The region south of this circle is known as the Antarctic, and the zone immediately to the ...

A group of 15 researchers have been gathering data for the last two weeks as part of the first all-Canadian Antarctic mission ...

Western history picks up the story in the late 18th century when British explorer James Cook had a near miss with the White Continent despite crossing the Antarctic Circle in the 1770s.

The Discovery expedition was one of the first official British explorations of the Antarctic. It launched the careers of Ernest Shackleton, Dr Edward Adrian Wilson and expedition leader Robert Falcon ...

We use imaginary lines to help locate where a place is in the world. the Arctic Circle (the North Pole) the Antarctic Circle (the South Pole) the Tropic of Cancer the Tropic of Capricorn and the ...