Sue Halliwell marks the 150th anniversary of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s birth by tracing his ill-fated British ...

South Georgia is a resurrected wonderland of Southern Ocean fauna after the ravages of the sealing and whaling eras. Today it ...

Citizen historians have spent decades searching for the original text of Shackleton’s advertisement. Now, some say it might ...

The account of Shackleton’s journey to Elephant Island, then in the James Caird to South Georgia ... a simple and unvarnished story, Sir Ernest was heartily cheered in recognition of the ...

Historically it was the final expedition ship of Sir Ernest Shackleton," he said Wednesday ... near the island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic during a voyage to Antarctica.

When you ask people to name an explorer of the Polar Regions, many will name Robert Falcon Scott, who led a doomed expedition to the South Pole. Few will mention Henry Ernest Shackleton ...

As I embarked the Seabourn Venture in Ushuaia, Argentina, the southernmost city in the world, I knew my mission to play golf ...

The scariest moment came when they reached South Georgia – where Shackleton ... Jarvis met explorer Ernest Shackleton’s granddaughter, Alexandra Shackleton. The journey reported was, in ...

In 1902, Scott, Dr. Edward Wilson, and Ernest Shackleton set out with dog teams and sledges aiming to be the first to reach the South Pole. They pushed south to 82º16.5'S, when scurvy ...

The Ernest Shackleton memorial stone at Westminster Abbey, central London. In 1907, his Nimrod expedition aimed to be the first to reach the South Pole and although this was not achieved ...

The true story of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the the South Pole and his epic struggle to lead his crew to safety after his ship was crushed in the pack ice.