The Aviator and the Showman” by Laurie Gwen Shapiro is an exciting new book about Amelia Earhart that has already created ...

A new expedition led by Purdue University aims to locate Amelia Earhart's missing plane on Nikumaroro Island, potentially ...

A famous Antarctic explorer’s hut is opening its doors to the public in Wellington for the first time, thanks to cutting-edge technology and a dose of Kiwi ingenuity. The Antarctic Heritage ...

A SCIENCE COMMUNICATOR from Co Louth will tomorrow head off on an expedition to the Arctic Circle to retrace the steps of one ...

Publication date 1920 Topics Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922, Aurora (Ship : 1876-1917), Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917), Endurance (Ship), Imperial Trans-antarctic Expedition ...

Nearly six years later, as he prepared for another expedition to Antarctica, Shackleton would die of a heart attack on South Georgia. He was buried there on March 5, 1922.

A new book argues that a deadly decision made decades before the doomed Franklin Expedition may finally explain why so many of its officers were the first to fall.

During the 1819 expedition, the men’s Dene guide Akaitcho killed a bear, and while he didn’t eat it, he gave the flesh to the Europeans who, Franklin wrote, “had no such prejudice.” ...