Ernest Shackleton's crew survived conditions that destroyed many other expeditions of the era. What's often missed in the ...

Researchers collaborating between the Royal Canadian Geographic Society (RCHS) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI ...

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 ...

A new expedition has brought human observers to the site of Shackleton's final ship for the first time in over half a century ...

An expedition almost 400 metres below the surface of the Labrador Sea is revealing the first images of Quest, the sunken ...

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The 20-day polar expedition will depart from Ushuaia in Argentina in November before travelling across Drake’s Passage and ...

After more than a century at the bottom of the Antarctic’s Weddell sea, an expedition set off to photograph the final resting ...

First close-up images of famed polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s last ship released - Researchers hope to produce digital ...

This story originally appeared on Mental Floss. Anglo-Irish explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton made four expeditions to Antarctica in the early 20th century, failing in many of his objectives but becoming ...