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Just a reminder that you can see all the latest photos from the ice on our Flickr site, including this terrific shot by Ian Prickett of a snow drift near camp. See all photos using the Photostream, or be more selective by clicking on specific Sets. Click here to see mor…

The Antarctic ozone hole was discovered by British scientists and it led to severe restrictions in the use of CFC’s globally. It is not expected to recover until around 2070. Image source: National Geographic The Antarctic ozone hole was discovered by British scientists and it lead to severe restrictions in the use of CFC’s globally. It is not expected to recovere until around 2070…

We are pleased to announce that The Coldest Journey shop is now open. From baseball hats and USB sticks to ice scrapers and T-shirts, there is plenty of reasonably priced expedition-branded merchandise on offer for our fans to take a keepsake of their own.Click here to visit the shopThe Coldest Journey will stand in the record books as Man’s first ever attempt to cross the Antarctic during t…

Brash is basically ice rubble, made up of loose pieces of ice of various sizes and dimensions, from the size of gravel to a wheelie bin or bigger. Brash is debris resulting from differing erosive processes in the poles, such as when an ice berg is calved or simply when an ice bergs starts to break up as part of their on-going erosion. This picture by Brian Newham taken earlier in the year at…

Ice Flowers are delicate tufts of frost on a surface of ice or snow. The are sometimes referred to as Frost Flowers. Image by Brian…

The Polar Circles mark the latitude where for one day in summer  the sun never sets and conversely in winter the sun never…

The highest mountain in Antarctica is Mount Vinson 4,892m (16,050 ft) and is in the Ellsworth Mountains. It was first climbed in 1966.

The great explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton was buried at Grytviken on the sub-Antarctic island off South Georgia, at the request of his widow Emily. On 27 November 2011, the ashes of another lauded explorer, Frank Wild, were interred on the right-hand side of Shackleton’s grave site. An inscription nearby reads “Frank Wild 1873–1939, Shackleton’s right-hand man.” Photograph by Tim…

During winter the sea around Antarctica freezes and this area of frozen sea can be greater than the size of the continent.

At the South Pole the sun sets on the March Equinox and rises again on the September Equinox. That’s a long night in anybody’s book!