antarctica

An exploration of Antarctica, covering climate, discoveries, animals, plants, and more.

Provides facts about Antarctica, highlighting some of the continent's amazing natural features, plants, animals, and people, and including photographs, maps, and a time line.

Hoping to have an adventure to impress her grandcows, Emmadine Cow joins Admiral Richard E. Byrd on his 1933 expedition to the South Pole.

Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous journey across ice and stormy seas to reach inhabited land.

An introduction to Antarctica, including the history, geology, archaeology, climate science, and more.

Interesting facts about Antarctica.

Follows marine photographer Bill Curtsinger as he dives under the ice at Antarctica to learn about the plants and animals that thrive in this extreme habitat.

Explores the frozen region which is located at the bottom of the earth and which consists of the Antarctic continent, ocean, and sea islands.

An account of Admiral Richard Byrd's stay alone in a small shack during an Antarctic winter.