A Look Through a Century of Times Reporting From Antarctica

Generations of Times journalists have journeyed there with scientists. Their coverage traces humankind’s changing relationship with the most mysterious continent.

Eight weeks is the length of the current expedition of the Araon, an icebreaker that is carrying dozens of scientists and two New York Times journalists to Antarctica. That’s a long time for a reporter to spend on assignment anywhere, let alone at the bottom of the planet.

Russell Owen clocked 14 months.

From late 1928 to early 1930, Mr. Owen filed near-daily dispatches for The Times from a landmark Antarctic expedition led by the U.S. Navy commander Richard E. Byrd. He chronicled hardships and triumphs, beauty and mundanity, all of it culminating when Commander Byrd became the first person to fly over the South Pole in November 1929.