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

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

After Shackleton's experience with the Endurance, he served in the British Army and continued his expeditions until his death in 1922. It can be argued that his previous Antarctic experiences ...

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 ...

Shackleton went on to become a knight of the realm, led several Antarctic expeditions ,and climbed an active Antarctic volcano. Born in 1874 in County Kildare, Shackleton resisted his father’s ...

Shackleton’s Emperors,” an 18-day voyage to see the Emperor penguin colony at Snow Hill Island. The special voyage also ...

Into approximately the same period as Shackleton's expedition falls Charcot's voyage on the “Pourquoi Pas” in the Antarctic (1908-1910). In sportsmanlike spirit this French explorer refrained ...

Sir Ernest Shackleton, one of the great Antarctica ... which he had to abandon in 1915 on his ill-fated Antarctic expedition, is probably still in very good condition on the ocean floor.

Antarctica has a wild ... Many of the most famous expeditions, such as Shackleton’s fateful voyage on the Endurance, occurred in the early 20th century, when photography was available.