Commemorating peace in Antarctica Jun 23, 2018

Commemorating peace in Antarctica

We feel chilly just looking at this image of the Europa sailing the Penola Strait, near the Antarctic Peninsula. This three-masted barque may resemble polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated ship Endurance, which was lost to the ice in an expedition to the South Pole in 1915. But the Europa is a modern, refitted lightship that now sails the world with paying passengers and makes annual trips to Antarctica.

© Colin Monteath/Minden Pictures

palette

Today in History

Jun 23, 2019Adorable activism
Jun 23, 2020Flowers by the sea
Jun 23, 2021Light show in the forest
Jun 23, 2022Stari Most in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jun 23, 2023Pollinator Week
Jun 23, 2024Dhaka, Bangladesh
Jun 23, 2025The Elbe in Dresden, Germany

More Desktop Wallpapers:

Oct 19, 2025Apples ready for harvest in Minnesota
May 16, 20193,000 years of history
Nov 3, 2022International Day for Biosphere Reserves
May 29, 2021A path into history
Dec 29, 2021Mountain goats
Feb 17, 2018Infant Sumatran orangutan, Indonesia
Mar 21, 2022World Poetry Day
Mar 10, 2022Bobbio, Italy
Sep 27, 2018High seas commerce
Aug 24, 2020Go with the rainbow flow
Sep 17, 2025A young bull moose in Denali National Park, Alaska
Apr 12, 2020Who created the Easter Bunny?
May 2, 2024Craters of the Moon centennial
Feb 2, 2023Groundhog Day
May 2, 2022Pamukkale, Turkey
Dec 12, 2018The story of the poinsettia
Jul 27, 2019Longer days mean warmer sand
Jun 17, 2022Grand Teton National Park
Oct 29, 2023Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia
Sep 20, 2021Birds of a feather flocking together
Aug 10, 2025World Lion Day
Dec 14, 2020I see one!
Jan 13, 2020Welcome to California
Sep 26, 2025Least chipmunk, Kootenai National Forest, Montana
Feb 2, 2022Groundhog Day
Nov 9, 2025Carl Sagan Day
Apr 26, 2022Landscape Architecture Month
Jan 9, 2021The stylish Spanish shawl
Mar 18, 2020A stroll above the stratosphere
Aug 24, 2021Surf s always up in Paia