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

“Greetings, everybody,” he said on his broadcast. “When my hero Ernest Shackleton walked ninety-seven miles from the South Pole on the morning of January 9, 1909, he said he’d shot his bolt.

WE know him as the tough-guy adventurer who is either climbing Mount Everest, racing to the South Pole or running a marathon ...

One hundred years on from the death of the famous polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton ... Early explorers raced to be the first to reach the South Pole and to conquer the planet’s furthest ...

How do you do, Ollie? I’m Robert Falcon Scott. I set out in 1911 to be the first person to reach the South Pole. I knew that Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer ...

On 3 June 1916, Stanley had ever seen so many people at the new Town Hall, to welcome Sir Ernest ... of Shackleton’s journey to Elephant Island, then in the James Caird to South Georgia, the ...

How do you do, Ollie? I’m Robert Falcon Scott. I set out in 1911 to be the first person to reach the South Pole. I knew that Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer ...

Discovered by the West not much more than 200 years ago, Antarctica’s history is unique when compared to the six other continents—because its exploration, mapping, and “settlement” are all so ...

A seaman and Antarctic explorer, he was part of the Discovery and Terra Nova expeditions led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott to the South Pole. He was also part of Ernest Shackleton’s mission on ...

In a recovery-bound economy, it’s probably hard to sell vacations that cost up to $12,000 per person. But for a few Prior Lake families, the experience of exploring an unusual destination ...