1.   THE record-breaking Antarctic explorers, Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Dr Michael Stroud, yesterday put off homecoming celebrations to undergo a series of gruelling scientific experiments.

2.   A prudent Antarctic explorer does wear goggles, but more for glare protection than cold protection.

3.   But Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, the Antarctic explorer, continues to grip the public imagination precisely because he was so flawed and yet behaved so nobly.

4.   Confirmed speakers include the naturalist David Attenborough, the Antarctic explorer Ranulph Fiennes and members of the team that cloned Dolly the sheep.

5.   Q. You see Antarctic explorers swathed from head to toe, except the eyes.

6.   There are manly memoirs and survival books by Alaskan crab fishermen and Antarctic explorers.

7.   Evans led a research team to study Antarctic pollution, including the effects of waste and rubbish disposal by early Antarctic explorers, on fish and marine life.