The historic buildings at a whaling station were built in about 1906 by Norwegian carpenters, but have fallen into disrepair.
Urgent restoration work is under way on the South Georgia villa used during Shackleton’s legendary Endurance rescue ...
Legend has it that Antarctic adventurer Ernest Shackleton posted an advertisement in a London paper before his infamous Endurance expedition: “Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, ...
The great British explorer Ernest Shackleton is very hot these days — in marked contrast to how he and his hardy band felt during their 1914-1916 expedition to Antarctica. The “most glorious failure” ...
“She was doomed, no ship built by human hands could have withstood the strain.” When polar explorer Ernest Shackleton wrote this journal entry on October 27, 1915, his dreams of reaching Antarctica ...
"Three cheers for the dogs" -- A compass pointing south -- The empire's mapmaker -- In Challenger's wake -- Taking the measure of men -- March to the penguins -- Discovering a continent's past -- The ...
A robotic float has measured the temperature and salinity from parts of the ocean never sampled before—underneath massive floating ice shelves in East Antarctica. For two and a half years, an Argo ...
Relative of legendary polar explorer Ernest Shackleton fulfills family dream. Feb. 9, 2010— -- When Navy Commander Scott Shackleton stepped off a C-130 aircraft and set foot on the South Pole ...