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 ...

Ernest Shackleton's ship was stuck in the Antarctic ice, and it didn't look like his crew would survive. Exactly a century ago this month, he had left Britain with 27 others on his ship, the Endurance ...

Burberry helmet worn by Sir Ernest Shackleton, Inscription reads:- 'To Frank Thornton: I give this helmet though it is not of any use in his combat in 'When Knights were bold' it may be liked as it ...

Alexandra Shackleton, granddaughter of explorer Ernest Shackleton (Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire). Sir Ernest Shackleton, the great English polar explorer died in 1922 at the age of 47 in Grytviken, South ...

A poignant memorial to polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton from his crew has gone on display in Dundee after a journey of more than 7,000 miles from the South Atlantic. Shackleton died in 1922 in ...

Explorers of the southern continent of Antarctica – Douglas Mawson, Alistair MacKay and Edgeworth David – on January 16, 1909, near the magnetic south pole. Image via Wikimedia Commons. Magnetic south ...

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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 ...

The so-called “heroic age” of polar exploration lasted from the tail end of the Victorian era until the outbreak of World War I. When we consider this period’s doughty adventurers, none speaks more ...

A South African icebreaker set off from Cape Town on Saturday in search of the world’s most elusive shipwreck: explorer Ernest Shackleton’s vessel Endurance. The 144-foot wooden ship, which sank off ...