The polar mission is being carried out in order to better define Canada's claim on a portion of the Arctic seafloor, which is ...

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Ever dreamed of spending the night in an igloo at the North Pole? For one month only, travelers will have the opportunity to do just that – provided they’ve got a spare $100,000. A temporary hotel ...

It’s May 11, 1926, and a giant airship, the Norge (meaning Norway), has just been unhooked from its mast at one of the world’s most remote settlements, Ny-Ålesund, in the Svalbard archipelago. This ...

When Santa is done delivering presents on Christmas Eve, he must get back home to the North Pole, even if it's snowing so hard that the reindeer can't see the way. He could use a compass, but then he ...

Rob Huebert is a political science professor at the University of Calgary. Forget Santa Claus's ethnicity — what's his nationality? Canada's recent announcement that it may try to extend its territory ...

Earth’s magnetic north pole has been moving East at an unusually fast pace, heading from the Canadian Arctic toward Russia. The rapid change of the magnetic poles has caused concern over navigation, ...

Tourism in the polar regions is nothing new. It’s been available for decades. Historically polar travel, both in the Arctic and in Antarctica, was by cruise ships that sailed along the periphery of ...