World’s Strangest

Crates of whiskey from 100 years ago have been uncovered below Ernest Shackleton’s hut in Antarctica. A number of crates of Mackinlay’s Scotch whisky …

Marie Byrd Land and Bir Tawil Triangle are the only two land areas on Earth not claimed by any country. Marie Byrd Land is a portion of Antarctica so remote that no country in the world bothered to claim it. It’s the single largest unclaimed territory on Earth. Bir Tawil Triangle likely has no owner because of [...]

Most of Antarctica has about 2 1/2 miles of ice covering it, and that cold, white wasteland is what most people picture when they think of our south pole. But as I discovered last week, when I posted about its mysterious Blood Falls, there is a series of dry valleys in Antarctica, about 4,000 kilometers [...]

There is a glacier in Antarctica that seems to be weeping a river of blood. It’s one of the continent’s strangest features, and it’s located in one of the continent’s strangest places — the McMurdo Dry Valleys, a huge, ice-free zone and one of the world’s harshest deserts. So imagine you’re hiking through this – – [...]

Researchers continue to piece together a view of Antarctica’s hidden “Ghost Peaks” buried deep underneath the ice. An extensive period of study using …

An autistic Canadian second-grader has created a meme that has traveled to Antarctica, where scientists in a British research facility have posted the image and declared it to be “official policy in Antarctica.” In October, [Michelle Chipman] was walking down the hall when she kicked an inflatable penguin — which had been won at the Regatta [...]

The temperature at Russia’s Vostok research station in Antarctica read -128.6F (-89.2 C) during the winter of 1983. This is the coldest temperature ever recorded on earth. The winter temperature at Vostok averages a mere -54F. Why the mercury dipped so low has puzzled scientists for 26 years. But scientists at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) [...]

I once thought that it should be very hard to lose something as big as an airplane. When planes fly into deep water, high altitudes, ice, snow, jungle, or desert, it happens more often you’d think. Finding those planes many years later is a rare occurrence, but it happens. After the previous article 9 Lost [...]

You might think that an airplane would be a pretty difficult object to lose, but there are still large areas of wilderness on our planet where planes can be hidden for decades. On rare occasions they are found again, against all odds. Over the weekend, I saw an article headlined Remains of Early 1900s Plane [...]

Under the vast ice sheets of Antarctica there exists an extensive mountain range entirely encompassed in the ice. Now an international team of sci…