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German Exploration of the Polar World is the exciting story of the generations of German polar explorers who braved the perils of the Arctic and Antarctic for t

While science was usually at the forefront of German Antarctic expeditions, research into the Southern Polar region always had a political or economic component

Since the 18th century, Greenland's geometric center, Eismitte, has been one of the most forbidding but scientifically rich locations in the Arctic. Tracing its

The International Polar Years and the International Geophysical Year represented a remarkable international collaborative scientific effort that has been largel

"The South Pole discovered" trumpeted the front page of The Daily Chronicle on March 8, 1912, marking Roald Amundsen's triumph over the tragic Robert Scott. Yet