Husky rides and a cruise on the icebreaker Polar Explorer on Bothnian Sea in Lapland, Finland, are on the itinerary, he said.

This story appears in the May 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The office of Artur Chilingarov, the bearded polar ...

Many Alaskans get a taste of the area when flying nonstop to Europe. The air route goes north off the coast of Alaska, over ...

Ironically, it turned out that the vehicle was faster in reverse than forward. It travelled about 160 kilometres across ...

An Icebreaker making the path for a cargo ship with an iceberg in the background near a port on the Alexandra Land island ...

The need for ships with icebreaking capabilities is growing as China and Russia increase their presence in the Arctic, ...

First mate Zhu Pengtao (L) and sailor Chen Dongbin adjust the navigation course aboard China's research icebreaker Xuelong 2. Currently on China's 41st Antarctic expedition, research icebreakers ...

The U.S. Coast Guard plans to hire the commercial icebreaker Aiviq to serve in the Arctic while waiting for the next ...

The Coast Guard has two ocean-going icebreakers, the Healy, which operates in the Arctic, and the Polar Star, a 48-year-old ship that is the only one capable of breaking heavy ice in Antarctica.