He was possibly one of the greatest, and certainly one of the most heroic of the Antarctic explorers.

Ernest Shackleton is often considered the greatest poet of all the Antarctic explorers.

To the northwest is the crater Scott, a formation of similar dimensions that is named for another Antarctic explorer.

Q. You see Antarctic explorers swathed from head to toe, except the eyes.

A prudent Antarctic explorer does wear goggles, but more for glare protection than cold protection.

The king penguin, once compared by an Antarctic explorer to a portly gentleman late for dinner, waddles up from the sea to nest.

Instead, they may outfit the Antarctic explorers - and their huskies.

And what would those Antarctic explorers of a thousand years ago have made of the view from his bridge?

Now it reminded me of what the old Antarctic explorers wrote in their diaries.

Palmer was a seal hunter and a pioneering Antarctic explorer.