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Dr Verena Meraldi is chief scientist at HX, a Norwegian cruise liner which sails from the bottom of Argentina, across the huge waves of Drake Passage to Antarctica

Ernest Shackleton and his team of 14 men lived in a wooden hut at Cape Royds, next to Pony Lake, on McMurdo Sound in the Antarctic and prepared to attempt to reach the South Pole

Jamie Douglas-Hamilton and a crew of explorers embarked on a rowing journey to Antarctica, to honour Harry McNish and in a bid to raise money for the British Heart Foundation