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The Scott Polar Research Institute announces a mission planned for 2019 to search for Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton's famed lost ship "Endurance", which sank in 1914 leading to a multi-year rescue operation.
2018-04-10

The United Nations' World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announces that, earlier this month, the Antarctic ozone hole widened to one of its largest sizes on record. A colder than usual stratosphere widened the hole to a peak of 28.2 million square km (10.9 million square miles).
2015-10-29

Japan announces plans to resume whaling in the Antarctic during the southern hemisphere summer. Commercial whaling has been banned for over 30 years by the International Whaling Commission.
2015-06-22

The United Nations International Court of Justice rules that Japan's Antarctic whaling program is not scientific but commercial and forbids grants of further permits.
2014-03-31

Sixteen-year-old Lewis Clarke of Bristol, United Kingdom, sets a new world record after becoming the youngest person to trek to the South Pole.
2014-01-18

The warmest temperature ever recorded at the South Pole is set with a top of -12.3°C set at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station.
2011-12-25

Sections of the British media report that Prince Harry has been cleared to return to service in the Afghan War.
2011-06-16

Japan's whaling fleet is leaving the Antarctic under pressure from conservationists and diplomats.
2011-02-16

Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada dismisses Australia's threat to take the country to the International Court of Justice over Japan's whaling in the Antarctic.
2010-02-21

An Antarctic expedition finds remains of the first aeroplane brought to the continent, a single-propeller Vickers plane of explorer Douglas Mawson.
2010-01-2