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A failed attempt to dog sled and ski to the North Pole. Includes preparation, group tensions, the stress of Arctic travel and evacuation.
http://hometown.aol.com/nerdbird1/npole.html
Roderick Eime journeys by icebreaker to the Antarctic Peninsula
http://members.ozemail.com.au/%7Erodeime/antarctica/
Life in the Arctic. Shown with pictures and links to discussion.
http://www.homestead.com/arcticlife/arctic1.html
A collection of photographs and anecdotes from Bill Tilmans pilot cutter voyages
http://www.comlay.net/tilman
North Pole expedition, 2002. Polar explorer Dave Mill in world record bid to complete solo walk from Canada to the North Pole.
http://www.northpolewalk.com/
Roderick Eime's snapshot of this amazing volcanic island at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.
http://www.monolith.com.au/Deception_Island/index.html
Travel about 2000 kilometres east from Tierra del Fuego, at the very tip of South America, and you might stumble on its precipitous and windswept shores.
http://www.monolith.com.au/south_georgia/index.html
A description of my year as a Network Administrator at the South Pole research station.
http://www.henrymalmgren.com
Exhaustive and detailed account of a two week cruise to the Antarctic Peninsula.
http://www.pvv.org/~bct/south/Chap7.html
A CBC News: Sunday videogapher, Ian Hannah, travels to the Magnetic North Pole with the Canadian Rangers.
http://www.cbc.ca/sunday/northpole/index.html
Travelogue of a three week vacation in the west of Greenland and Discobay
http://jan-online.org/greenland
Jan again. This time to Iceland in the winter.
http://jan-online.org/iceland
Official site for the White Desert expedition to the South Pole. Including daily updates, gallery and Antarctic history.
http://www.whitedesert.co.uk
A brutally frank introduction to working in the Antarctic.
http://www.bigdeadplace.com
A UK arts project involving a documentary artist aboard a Hull-based fishing trawler. Extensive!
http://beehive.thisishull.co.uk/art_trawl
Blog-style diary from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) team member. Images, information and personal thoughts about living and working in Antarctica. Timely and topical.
http://simonc.f2o.org/south/
Three Malaysians attempt a record-breaking journey across the Antarctic continent beginning in October 2003.
http://antarctica.mir.com.my
Personal travelogue pages of "Mick's" experiences.
http://www.micktravels.com/antarctica/