Sue Halliwell marks the 150th anniversary of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s birth by tracing his ill-fated British ...
South Georgia is a resurrected wonderland of Southern Ocean fauna after the ravages of the sealing and whaling eras. Today it ...
Citizen historians have spent decades searching for the original text of Shackleton’s advertisement. Now, some say it might never have existed ...
The account of Shackleton’s journey to Elephant Island, then in the James Caird to South Georgia ... a simple and unvarnished story, Sir Ernest was heartily cheered in recognition of the ...
As I embarked the Seabourn Venture in Ushuaia, Argentina, the southernmost city in the world, I knew my mission to play golf ...
The scariest moment came when they reached South Georgia – where Shackleton ... Jarvis met explorer Ernest Shackleton’s granddaughter, Alexandra Shackleton. The journey reported was, in ...
In situations of extreme danger, many report having perceived a figure that comforts and guides — is it our brain’s emergency ...
“In the UK, we’ve all heard of Ernest Shackleton, but not enough people ... off the coast of Antarctica in the outer reaches of the South Shetland Islands, in the Southern Ocean.
The expedition leader, Ernest Shackleton, has become almost synonymous ... When the ship arrived in South Georgia, local sailors warned that pack ice was forming early in the Weddell Sea and ...
The world's biggest iceberg — a wall of ice the size of Rhode Island — is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica ...
Mr Mearns has located 29 major wrecks in a career spanning 35 years, including the 16th century ship The Esmeralda from Vasco da Gama’s fleet, and Ernest Shackleton’s Quest ship, which went down off ...