The recent discovery of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance has thrust his epic tale of Antarctic survival into the limelight once again. The story still resonates with readers more than a century ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Not all shipwrecked treasure glitters. Some’s frozen where nobody dares to look.” A twinkle in his eye, marine archaeologist ...

A yacht inspired by the explorer Ernest Shackleton is set to become a "floating classroom" for young people to explore the ocean.

Researchers have discovered the remarkably well-preserved wreck of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship, Endurance, in 10,000 feet (about 3,000 metres) of icy water, a century after it was ...

EXCLUSIVE: The only granddaughter of the legendary Anglo-Irish explorer tells the story of her granddad's incredible escape as the Endurance plunged to its watery grave. "I was used to people always ...

During the "Heroic Age of Exploration," the period in which Shackleton's 1914-1916 British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition took place, Antarctic expeditions often became ordeals of suffering. At ...

After more than 100 years hidden in the icy waters of Antarctica, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance has been revealed in extraordinary 3D detail. For the first time we can see the vessel, which ...

Ernest Shackleton‘s legendary lost ship Endurance, which sank in 1915 in Antarctica, has been discovered 10,000 feet deep at the bottom of the Weddell Sea. The ship, which sank under pack ice as ...

Legend has it that Antarctic adventurer Ernest Shackleton posted an advertisement in a London paper before his infamous Endurance expedition: “Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, ...

The great polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton never achieved his goal of traversing the continent of Antarctica, but is remembered these days for something more extraordinary. One hundred years ago, ...