Shackleton’s main plan was to be the first team to cross the Antarctic Continent – to start on one side, cross the South Pole and continue to the other side. He gathered a top crew to join the ...
It is on the expedition’s return leg that the team will aim to find Shackleton’s legendary ship, Endurance, crushed by pack and sank An Antarctic scientific expedition aiming to understand the ...
Dogged persistence and some favorable breaks in the pack allowed Endurance to keep making progress though and by January 15 the expedition was 76°S. The ship was alongside a glacier that could have ...
On 3 June 1916, Stanley had ever seen so many people at the new Town Hall, to welcome Sir Ernest Shackleton who gave a brief account of his late expedition In March 1915 the Endurance was ...
No amount of effort could break the expedition free, and by February 24 Shackleton ordered the routines of a seagoing ship be ceased. Endurance became a camp, with no choice but to drift with the ...
Ernest Shackleton died on this day, January 5th, 1922. The Co Kildare man died having become one of Ireland's best-known explorers of the Polar Regions. When you ask people to name an explorer ...
A definitive look at Sir Ernest Shackleton's historic and ill-fated 1914 Antarctic expedition, which resulted in the loss of his highly revered ship, as well as maritime archaeologists' relentless ...
The true story of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the the South Pole and his epic struggle to lead his crew to safety after his ship was crushed in the pack ice.