Learn about Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated voyage to Antarctica aboard the "Endurance" and about the amazing rescue that followed, after the expedition was forced to abandon ship. Uses actual expedition photographs and diary entries to...

Multimedia-rich exhibition documents the race, in 1911, to be the first to reach the South Pole. Two teams undertook the perilous journey, one British, led by Robert Scott, and one Norwegian, led by Roald Amundsen. With digital dioramas,...

A website about Richard E. Byrd, Dr. Frederick A. Cook, and Sir Hubert Wilkins and Antarctica exploration.

A map from 1858 of North America showing the boundaries at the time for Russian America (Alaska), Greenland, British America or New Britain, Canada East and Canada West, the United States, Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies...