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Christian Hug
Nobu Shirase wants to go to the South Pole! That was the joke of the year in 1909. The Japanese were rolling with laughter, and the press openly mocked him.
Léa Zinsli
A ten-year-old skier is attempting to cross Svalbard, prioritizing shared experience and time in the Arctic over speed or records.
Arctic ice diatoms can move through ice down to −15 °C, revealing remarkable adaptations that help them survive and thrive in polar ecosystems.
Heiner Kubny
Significant progress has been made in the construction of the German research icebreaker “Polarstern”: A scale model of the future vessel has successfully passed its final tests in the ice tank.
Pamela da Costa
During the Cold War, polar and space exploration became part of global technological competition.
After days of searching, the autonomous underwater robot “MONACA” has been successfully recovered.
Greta Paulsdottir
On foot, by sled, or by ship, many methods had already been tried to reach the North Pole.
Sveagruva, a historic mining settlement, is now a research base giving UNIS scientists unprecedented access to study eastern Svalbard’s glaciers, geology, and ecosystems.
The exploration of the polar regions has produced heroes whose achievements we remember with reverence.
In the autumn of 1928, Byrd left the United States aboard the City of New York and the Eleanor Bolling, heading for New Zealand with three airplanes and one helicopter. On board were 82 expedition members and materials for a polar station.
