Adrift on the Arctic Ocean in the midst of the dark polar winter, Fridtjof Nansen faced a dilemma. A year and a half earlier, the 33-year-old explorer had set sail from Norway on his polar ship, the ...

This documentary examines the mysterious 1845 case of a British ship that went missing while trying to navigate passage through Northern Canada to the Pacific Ocean. 160 years ago, the Franklin ...

Imagine a world where borders were just agreements on taxes. In 1326, two powers agreed to tax the Sami people from both sides. This “marchland” deal lasted for centuries without actual lines. The ...

In an ice cave, the distance between you and the rich blue ice around you vanishes. I walked into one such cave in southern Iceland, delicately through a tunnel of circular ice arches. They towered ...