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Glowing rose-red and turquoise in the midnight sun, and trailing a long banner of steam over ross Island's miles of snow and ice, Mount Erebus is the very symbol and beacon of Antarctic exploration. At its feet lies the modern sprawl ...

Mammoth Cave owes its name to its size, not to relics of long-gone mammoths. Carved from limestone hills in Kentucky by trickles of acidic water over millions of years, the cave has some 330 miles (530km) of passages, possibly more, on ...

Long ago, when the United States was hardly out of its teens, you could sometimes find leathery backwoodsmen who told tales of a fabulous land to the west where fountains of boiling water ascended high past the trees as the floor ...

Trying to imagine the vastness of the River Amazon is almost as difficult as trying to comprehend infinity - the mind reels at its staggering immensity. With its countless tributaries, the Amazon drains an area of South America almost the size ...

Grazed by the rays of a low sun, the towers and canyons of the Bungle Bungle form a dreamy panorama that glows as if lit from within. The astonishing tiger-striped domes loom in surreal granduer from the plains of the Ord ...

One of the most satisfying ways of achieving greatness must be to stumble across it while you are searching for something else - take Christopher Columbus and the New World, for instance, or Vasco da Gama and India. Another such was ...

In the land of Four Corners, where Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico meet, geological extravaganzas are the norm - hence many national parks and monuments dot the map. Even among these, the Canyon de Chelly (pronounced 'de Shay') is special ...

In the heart of a steamy rainforest, Stony Creek winds a gently sloping course through tangled trees and shrubs. Still dripping from the night's rain, palm fronds jostle in the undergrowth, and high overhead a canopy of leaves filters the early ...

Glistening white dunes; contoured and shaped by the warm current into evenly rounded arcs, extend endlessly before the eye of a beholder in the White Sands. But this is uncommon sand - not the typical quartz, but gypsum; commonly called white ...

On Friday, 1 July 2022, Portugal joined the list of nations to lift all COVID-related entry restraints for tourists; without needing to show a vaccination or recovery report. A senior official said that the number of Coronavirus infections and deaths has ...

Doctor James Hector, a geologist exploring the Bow Valley in the Canadian Rocky Mountains in 1858, was kicked violently in the chest by a packhorse while he helped the horse across a river. When Hector was found unconscious by his Stoney ...

For nearly six months of the year, the Mackenzie Delta on the Northwest coast of Canada is barely recognisable as a river delta. It is blanketed by an icy mantle that merges its islands and waterways with the frozen coastal plain. ...