In 1902, Scott, Dr. Edward Wilson, and Ernest Shackleton set out with dog teams and sledges aiming to be the first to reach the South Pole. They pushed south to 82º16.5'S, when scurvy ...

Four years later, Shackleton, assuming his first command, mounted the Nimrod expedition. This time, he and three companions went closer to the South Pole than anyone had previously gone ...

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

who reached the South Pole in 1911. Regardless, Shackleton's accomplishments on the Nimrod Expedition were widely celebrated; he was knighted by Edward VII and was awarded a silver Polar Medal for ...

led by the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton, tried and failed to become the first men to reach the South Pole. Following in their footsteps the team set off on a 900–mile expedition.

which had been hit hard in 1911 when Norwegian Roald Amundsen beat Captain Robert Scott to the South Pole. Shackleton had ...

The next South Pole expedition of any importance was ... Into approximately the same period as Shackleton's expedition falls Charcot's voyage on the “Pourquoi Pas” in the Antarctic (1908-1910).

The expedition was named 90° South and ... fan of all the great adventurers including Sir Ernest Shackleton. Reaching the South Pole itself allowed me to understand a little bit more about ...

Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship, Endurance, has been found after 107 years. This 4k footage shows the preserved vessel 3008 metres below the ocean surface, discovered just four miles south of the ...