Antarctic Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/antarctic/ Mechanically-minded travel Sat, 11 Oct 2025 19:53:49 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Pole to Pole in an Electric Vehicle https://mechtraveller.com/2022/05/pole-to-pole-in-an-electric-vehicle/ https://mechtraveller.com/2022/05/pole-to-pole-in-an-electric-vehicle/#respond Tue, 24 May 2022 12:31:29 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=7508 If you’ve ever suffered from ‘range anxiety’ in an electric vehicle (EV), think what British adventurer Chris Ramsey is about to experience on this epic car journey. Next year, he plans to drive a Nissan Ariya e-4ORCE from the magnetic North Pole to the South Pole. I expect he’ll manage ok in the equatorial & […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2022/05/pole-to-pole-in-an-electric-vehicle/feed/ 0 A New Antarctic Expedition Ship with an Unusual Shape https://mechtraveller.com/2019/11/a-new-antarctic-expedition-ship-with-an-unusual-shape/ https://mechtraveller.com/2019/11/a-new-antarctic-expedition-ship-with-an-unusual-shape/#respond Fri, 01 Nov 2019 12:19:53 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=5456 Aurora Expeditions, who specialise in expeditions to the polar regions, yesterday named their new ship, the Greg Mortimer, in a ceremony set against the snow-capped mountains of Ushuaia, Argentina. The new ship has a striking profile because she is the first passenger vessel in the world to utilise the patented Ulstein X-BOW® technology, an inverted […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2019/11/a-new-antarctic-expedition-ship-with-an-unusual-shape/feed/ 0 Capt Scott’s Antarctic Legacy in Cardiff https://mechtraveller.com/2019/01/capt-scotts-antarctic-legacy-in-cardiff/ https://mechtraveller.com/2019/01/capt-scotts-antarctic-legacy-in-cardiff/#comments Thu, 03 Jan 2019 15:46:32 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=3991 There was a public auction today, of memorabilia and documents from the British Antarctic Expedition 1907–09, also known as the Nimrod Expedition. A ‘hat-tip’ to former colleague, Matthew Teller, for spotting it and posting it on Twitter. The Lots 1-6 being sold off in Golding Young & Mawer Grantham’s Collective Sale, include several autographed menus […]

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