Sue Halliwell marks the 150th anniversary of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s birth by tracing his ill-fated British ...

marking the return of the Yelcho from its successful mission with Shackleton’s crew on 3 September 1916. RN Ice Patrol Protector stopped in Punta Arenas for maintenance ahead of the second phase ...

As I embarked the Seabourn Venture in Ushuaia, Argentina, the southernmost city in the world, I knew my mission to play golf ...

Citizen historians have spent decades searching for the original text of Shackleton’s advertisement. Now, some say it might never have existed ...

Zodiac Killer Project” — a new film that premiered at Sundance about the terrifying Bay Area murder spree of the late ’60s ...

South Georgia is a resurrected wonderland of Southern Ocean fauna after the ravages of the sealing and whaling eras. Today it ...

The 28-strong crew spent the next one-and-a-half years struggling for survival on the frozen continent. They were only rescued after Shackleton and five of his crew sailed across the treacherous ...

Year 5 pupils in Irvinestown Primary School had an ‘ice’ time when they took part in a live video call to Antarctica recently. The pupils spoke with some of the crew of the RRS Sir David Attenborough, ...

In the coming years, an unprecedented number of people will leave planet Earth—but it’s becoming increasingly clear that deep ...

Miraculously, not a single crew member died (thanks, in part, to Shackleton’s leadership, as well as the navigational skills and perseverance of his crew), enshrining it as one of the most ...