Geographical Discovery & Exploration

Throughout the world, traditional medical systems continue to impact the lives of many people. These systems vary greatly in their underlying belie...

Aged seventeen, Marco Polo left his home in Venice on a continent-spanning adventure that lasted for nearly a quarter of a century. Imprisoned in G...

The famous geological research ship Glomar Challenger was a radically new instrument that revolutionized earth science in the same sense that the c...

In March 2022, an international polar expedition team made an astonishing find: the wreck of Ernest Shackleton's legendary Endurance, lost in 1915 ...

By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west coast for centur...