Between 8 to 14 million tonnes of plastic makes their way into our ocean worldwide every year (that is more than a garbage truck’s worth per minute) and it is now estimated that 88% of the sea’s surface is polluted by plastic waste: more than 1 million seabirds and…
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Legends and myths all over the world always hold mysterious and incredible stories. Extraordinary tales are hereditary from one generation to the next, sometimes intriguing enough to be explore further in real life. One compelling enigma comes from the…
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For Freddie Mercury fans, Zanzibar may not be foreign to their ears. The biopic Bohemian Rapshody (2018) brings back Zanzibar as a fragment of the earliest life story of the lead vocalist and songwriter of the British-based rock band Queen. The first ever…
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The first person who was to set foot on the shores of the North Atlantic Island, now called Iceland, remains a mystery. However, it is known that human life began there long after all other habitable areas on earth were occupied. Prehistoric times are a field of …
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Isolated and idyllic, saturated by the Pacific Ocean and bordered by coral reefs, the Pitcairn Island proposes cinematic landscapes and history. Pitcairn is the only inhabited island in a group of four remote, volcanic islands that outlie the Tuamotu Group in…
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The first quarter of 20th Century was marked by a number of known expeditions that make a deep impact in the history of the studies of Arctic Seas and their ice regimes. In the summer of 1912, a total of three expeditions set out from Arkhangelsk and …
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Nowhere in the Arctic is the bravery of early polar exploration more plainly obvious than in Franz Josef Land. This 191-island archipelago is notoriously isolated, but a small cruise ship with a fleet of Zodiacs allows visitors to discover the…
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The Republic of Honduras is the second-largest country in Central America. Situated between Guatemala and El Salvador to the west and Nicaragua to the south and east, this diamond-shaped republic is packed with beauty, tropical weather, and…
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n 1900-1902, Eduard Baron von Toll, a Baltic German geologist and Arctic explorer, headed an expedition of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences to the New Siberian Islands, the Russian Polar Expedition on Zarya. Zarya was a Norwegian schooner with…
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The volcanic Aleutian Islands stretch between the United States and Russia in the Bering Sea. The archipelago’s largest community goes by two names: Unalaska and Dutch Harbor. These remote, mostly uninhabited islands are an area of stunning beauty and …
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Bear Island is almost heart shaped and lies at 74 degrees North in the western part of the Barents Sea. The island is part of the Svalbard archipelago. You can definitely say that Willem Barentsz has put his mark on the polar area. The Dutch cartographer and…
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