The crumbling wooden house on South Georgia Island, where Sir Ernest Shackleton organized the rescue of his crew in 1916, is ...

Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance has been seen like never before in a detailed 3D scan. The wreck of the explorer’s vessel was found 3,000 metres beneath the surface of Antarctica’s Weddell Sea in ...

The historic buildings at a whaling station were built in about 1906 by Norwegian carpenters, but have fallen into disrepair.

Shackleton famously reached the whaling station of Stromness on South Georgia in 1916 after spending 18 months stranded on ...

At a recent black-tie dinner in Manhattan, the Elisha Kent Kane Historical Society, presented its Gold Medal to Mensun Bound, ...

The wreck of one of the most famous exploration ships in history has been located. Using a robotic submersible, the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust has found Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance, which ...

Two colleagues awarded the Polar Medal have called it "doubly nice" to get their recognition at the same time. The medal, ...

Over a century after it sunk, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship, Endurance, was finally found. An expedition team has just located the greatest shipwreck of all times, that sunk in 1915 in the Weddel Sea.

El viaje del explorador a la Antártida probablemente estaba condenado al fracaso antes de comenzar. By Sara Novak The explorer’s journey to Antarctica was likely doomed before it began. By Sara Novak ...

This story originally appeared on Mental Floss. Anglo-Irish explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton made four expeditions to Antarctica in the early 20th century, failing in many of his objectives but becoming ...