It’s not a country, so can you cross it off a ... “flag nerd” and began to toy with the idea of creating a flag to represent Antarctica. He went with dark blue for the Southern Ocean waters ...

“All the countries we know that have flags also have other ways of representing themselves, be it landmarks, cultural markers or ambassadors,” Townsend says. “Unfortunately, that isn’t as true for ...

In 1911, Roald Amundsen planted the Norwegian flag at the South Pole ... as it is through research that countries gain influence within the Antarctic Treaty," says Professor Roberts.

Mountaineer Birkan Uzun, a citizen of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), waved his country's flag on the summit of Mt. Vinson, Antarctica's highest peak. Uzun, who is living in the US ...

Colombian mountain climbers are planning to plant their country’s flag on the highest peak of Antarctica. The seven men on Friday visited President Juan Manuel Santos who handed the climbers a flag, ...

The country entered World War II in 1941. As the years passed, Flag No. 98 was basically written off. When Admiral Byrd departed on that Antarctica trip, his son and namesake, Dick, was 19.