polar exploration

Madness, mutiny and murder in the Canadian Arctic

26 September 2026 9:00 am

As great ship-stuck-in-ice-disasters go, that of the Karluck in 1913 has few equals in its quest of a polar Atlantis

Shackleton’s ship the Nimrod in the ice at McMurdo Sound

Beyond Endurance

11 October 2014 9:00 am

Polar explorers are often cast as mavericks, and this is hardly surprising. The profession requires a disdain for pseudo-orthodoxies and,…