Explorers require financing in order to pay for their expeditions. Adding research to the expedition's charter simply broadens the option for funding.
No. Antarctica is a continent that is not owned by the United States. In fact, many countries (the USA among them) have sent explorers there or set up scientific bases in order to do research.
Explorers to go to Antarctica to explore: this is their work.
Scientists and explorers.
by surviving
why not
All polar explorers between about 1899 and 1922 -- the Heroic age of Antarctic Exploration -- traveled to Antarctica by sailing ship.
no of course not
Early explorers took both dogs and ponies to Antarctica.
Wouldn't matter much. It has no permanent population, only some visiting scientists and explorers/adventurers. There'd be some research data we'd have to do without.
All research conducted on Antarctica studies the health of planet earth.
All research on in Antarctica studies the health of planet earth.
They set up tents and slept in them