Which destination offers more: Antarctica or the Arctic? Sue Halliwell compares ... both ends of the earth on spectacular National Geographic-Lindblad expedition cruises, I can reliably report ...

This story appears in the May 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine ... porcelain polar bears—an iconography of the Arctic and Antarctic. On a wall is a portrait of Vladimir Putin.

Antarctica's nearest neighbour is the tip of South America, although this is still around 1,000km away. It would take over two days to reach it by boat. The Geographic South Pole is the most ...

Because of this geography, Antarctic sea ice coverage is larger than the Arctic’s in winter, but smaller in the summer. Total Antarctic sea ice peaks in September—the end of Southern Hemisphere winter ...

The processes that determine the hydrochemistry and biogeochemistry of high-elevation basins including the storage and release of solutes from the snowpack, biogeochemical modifications of snowpack ...

Scientists have been studying the melting of Arctic glaciers for years. In addition to the progressive warming of the climate ...

The British Arctic and Antarctic Surveys also offer schools ... to the current national curriculum requirements in KS1 geography in England; the Foundation Stage World Around Us in Northern ...

The Gjøa expedition gave Amundsen more than his first geographic prize. Through it he became closely acquainted with the Netsilik Eskimos and their superb adaptation to the rigors of the Arctic ...

Four years later, I moved to the Norwegian Arctic to become a dogsledder, and I’ve been mushing dogs in the frozen North ever since. Antarctica ... aboard the National Geographic Explorer ...