Our 21-day expedition cruise on the Seabourn Pursuit came with excursions throughout Antarctica, Falkland Islands, and ...

Citizen historians have spent decades searching for the original text of Shackleton’s advertisement. Now, some say it might ...

In 1955 he was appointed as doctor, dentist and veterinarian in the eight-man advance party of Sir Vivian Fuchs’s 1955-58 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (TAE) that completed the first ...

Shackleton was buried in the Grytviken cemetery, per sgmuseum.gs, on 5th March 1922, and a century later the ashes of Frank ...

The first antarctic expedition falls into that period which is so peculiarly replete with important events, both in the world of politics and in the realm of science. We read in a leaflet issued ...

who had been trapped for many months on Elephant Island – their refuge following the loss of their ship in the pack ice of the Weddell Sea during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.

1. “Endurance” chronicles Ernest Shackleton’s failed imperial trans-Antarctic expedition, the first attempt to traverse the Antarctic continent. The expedition, launched in 1914, was cut ...

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 ...

An expedition composed of 124 women from 24 countries, including South Africa, will depart from Ushuaia, Argentina, next Tuesday (January 28), to gain first-hand experience of the Antarctic.