McClintock, also known as Ireland’s ‘Arctic Fox’, was born in Dundalk in 1819. He achieved fame as an Arctic explorer who ...

A pocket watch which has been described as having an "adventurous past" by an auction house is set to go under the hammer. An ...

A Scottish island with a derelict castle has been put up for sale for the first time in eight decades. Shuna, a 1,100-acre ...

Shuna Island, is being listed by London real estate firm Knight Frank, with access via Islay, local marinas, and Glasgow International Airport.

Shackleton will travel aboard PONANT’s luxury icebreaker, Le Commandant Charcot, on a once-in-a-lifetime expedition from Ushuaia, Argentina to Hobart, Tasmania – a 31-day journey retracing the ...

Ernest Shackleton was born on this day, February 15, 1874. The Co Kildare man died in 1922 having become one of Ireland's best-known explorers of the Polar Regions.

All of that has served as a prelude to their latest doc, Endurance (co-directed by Natalie Hewit) , about polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s legendary 1914-1917 Trans-Antarctic expedition ...

All of that has served as a prelude to their latest doc, Endurance (co-directed by Natalie Hewit) , about polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s legendary 1914-1917 Trans-Antarctic expedition ...

Driven by a desire to explore, Shackleton joined the 1901 Antarctic expedition led by Robert Scott, best known as the leader of the Terra Nova Expedition. Shackleton and Scott braved sub-zero ...