Follow the path of the 1999 expedition aboard the Akademik ... Click on the inset map of South Georgia to see Shackleton's route across South Georgia, which Reinhold Messner, Conrad Anker, and ...

Claudius Ptolemy (150 AD) map drawn from Ptolemy's coordinates for a 1482 edition of his Geographia (The Ulm Edition, Leinhard Holle) Lands beyond the bounds of the known world tantalized the ...

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

Today, the Shackleton Crossing is popular for mountaineers wishing to follow in the path of the great explorer’s expedition. Laura Gerrish, GIS & Mapping Specialist at BAS, says “This map is ...

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

The discovery was aided by extensive research of historic ship logs and maps along with ... explorer’s fourth expedition to ...

In January 2019, the S.A. Agulhas II, laden with cutting edge exploration equipment, set off on an unprecedented 45-day expedition to recover Sir Earnest Shackleton’s lost ship Endurance.

All but forgotten back home in Britain, Shackleton's expedition drifted with the ice for nearly two years. Facing hunger, loneliness, near-mutiny and what has come to be known as the greatest ...

Shackleton never reached the South Pole and died of a heart attack in 1922 off South Georgia, a British overseas territory, during a fourth Antarctic expedition. The sled and flag were owned by ...