The fabled expedition of Ernest Shackleton, the Anglo-Irish explorer who led 27 men on a voyage to Antarctica in 1914 aboard the three-masted barquentine schooner Endurance, only to see his ship sink ...
Endurance was made in Norway three years before the trip and originally named Polaris. The 144-foot-long wooden ship was sold to Shackleton for this mission, known as the Imperial Trans-Antarctic ...
New research from Cambridge re-examines the famous sinking of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance — and contradicts the ...
On Oct. 27, 1915, after being caught and crushed by packed ice for nine months in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica, Ernest ...
Growing up in the Falkland Islands, maritime archaeologist Mensun Bound was enamored with tales of adventure and stories of the sea. He was particularly taken with the saga of Ernest Shackleton, the ...
Did you ever think that leadership lessons can be derived from Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition? This is something that not too many of us are aware of and even fewer would be able to apply such an ...
Ernest Shackleton was sailing for Antarctica on the ship, called the Quest, when he died in 1922. Researchers exulted over the discovery of its wreckage, 62 years after it sank in the Labrador Sea. By ...
(CNN) – A collection of treasures from one of the greatest polar explorers has sold at auction in London. The items are from Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctica voyages more than a century ago. Shackleton ...