The Endurance, the ship of famed polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, had been lost for 107 years after being crushed by ice and sinking during the ill-fated 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.

5 January 2022 marks the centenary of the death of the famous Anglo-Irish explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and the end of the ‘Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration’. Shackleton’s ship became ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of British explorer Ernest Shackleton’s expedition across Antarctica. He dreamed of becoming the first person to cross Antarctica via the ...

Early in 1908 Lieut. Shackleton on board the “Nimrod,” with a party of about fifteen men, dogs, Siberian ponies, a motor car and other equipment, entered the antarctic regions near the 180th ...

Join us as we journey through Antarctica with Ernest Shackleton, facing impossible odds and defying death at every turn. Trump Expels Hundreds Under Enemies Act as Court Rebukes Law Jeremy Clarkso ...

It also carries the hopes of every Shackleton enthusiast the world over. The man at the helm is Captain Knowledge Bengu, a 41-year-old from Durban of many years Antarctic experience. Beside him is ...

Variously known as Drakes' Shake, "the most dreaded bit of ocean on the Globe" and home to the world's worst storms, the ...

Field research in Antarctica is an extended exercise in endurance. Grant approval alone can take more than a year, long enough to grow a beard like one of Ernest Shackleton’s shipwreck survivors. The ...

Icebreaker RRS Shackleton and RRS James Clark Ross with sophisticated scientific research equipment and tens of experts in different disciplines spent months in Antarctica and returned to ...

Belgian explorer Adrien de Gerlache’s 1897 expedition was the first to overwinter south of the Antarctic Circle. The 1915 story of Ernest Shackleton on the Endurance, where the ship is crushed ...

“In the UK, we’ve all heard of Ernest Shackleton, but not enough people ... mountainous island off the coast of Antarctica in the outer reaches of the South Shetland Islands, in the Southern ...