www.AntarcticGuide.com On Sunday morning local time a magnitude 6.5 earthquake rocked the remote Antarctic island of Elephant Island. At the top of the South Shetland Island group, Elephant Island is best known as the place where the shipwrecked mariners of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 Endurance expedition took shelter and waited for rescue under the leadership […]

www.AntarcticGuide.com http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/12/should-shackletons-heroism-matter-to-todays-entrepreneurs/250496/ Should Shackleton’s Heroism Matter to Today’s Entrepreneurs? By EDWARD TENNER Not a man was lost during the expedition’s nearly two-year ordeal at sea. Inspiring, sure, but not particularly relevant to today’s leaders. In the New York Times the Harvard Business School professor Nancy Koehn has a provocative essay on the lessons of the […]

www.AntarcticGuide.com http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=122659&org=NSF&from=news 
 NSF Awards Logistical Support Contract for U.S. Antarctic Program
 December 28, 2011 The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a multi-year contract to Lockheed Martin for logistical support for the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP). NSF provides funding for scientific research as well as for the necessary associated infrastructure and logistics, which includes […]

www.AntarcticGuide.com http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-16299859 Psychological tests on Antarctic expedition team A team of 24 servicemen and women who are spending two months in Antarctica next year will have their mental state monitored by sports psychologists. The British Services Antarctic Expedition will head to the South Pole in January to conduct research. The trip will also mark the […]

www.AntarcticGuide.com The man who bankrolled the Mawson expedition Karen Barlow reported this story on Saturday, December 24, 2011 08:24:00 http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2011/s3397659.htm DAVID MARK: A sense of adventure alone will only get you so far, money certainly helps and nobody knew that more than the men of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

Sir Douglas Mawson may never […]

www.AntarcticGuide.com http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/16250444 28 December 2011 Last updated at 02:36 Frozen Planet’s brinicle sequence explained Kathryn Jeffs, Doug Anderson and Hugh Miller show how difficult filming the brinicle was BBC Natural History Unit producer Kathryn Jeffs reveals the extreme conditions her film-making crew had to endure to capture the bizarre “ice finger of death” – known […]

www.AntarcticGuide.com http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16165494 Frank Wild in final journey out of Shackleton’s shadow By Karen Bowerman Frank Wild was the right-hand man to Sir Ernest Shackleton, joining him on several of his Antarctic expeditions. But is he finally stepping out of the great explorer’s shadow, as his ashes make a poignant journey south? Almost 100 years ago, […]

www.AntarcticGuide.com http://www.iol.co.za/motoring/4-x-4/new-arctic-records-for-sa-hiluxes-1.1203203 SA Time: 31 December 2011 9:24:23 PM GMT-03:00 New Antarctic record for Toyota Hilux South Africa’s Toyota Hilux AT vehicles (built by Toyota SA and converted by Arctic Trucks) have set some new world records in the harsh Antarctic climate. The first record was already recorded late last year when the vehicles, as […]