Irish-born explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton waves good-bye as his ship leaves Millwall Docks for the Antarctic in early August 1914. British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton led the ill-fated Endurance ...
More than 100 years after it was trapped and crushed by ice and sank in the Antarctic, explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship, the Endurance, has been found in the chilly depths of the ocean. Here’s what ...
The explorer’s journey to Antarctica was likely doomed before it began. By Sara Novak Ernest Shackleton was sailing for Antarctica on the ship, called the Quest, when he died in 1922. Researchers ...
After a 19-day voyage to the southern reaches of the world, this lifelong wanderer came away with a new reverence for the explorers of centuries past. Twelve hundred miles off the southernmost tip of ...
It isn’t every day that the most famous story of human survival gets an update. But the century-old tale of the Shackleton Expedition—you know, one in which marooned sailors survived off of seal ...
In the fall of 1915, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance sank off the coast of Antarctica, stranding its crew on drifting sea ice and setting in motion one of history’s most dramatic ...