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, ...

During Shackleton’s desperate march across South Georgia Island, he and his men sensed an unseen presence walking beside them Sir Ernest Shackleton before 1909, and his ship Endurance in Antarctica’s ...

For more than a century, icy Antarctic waters took the blame for the sinking of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance, touted as the strongest polar ship of its time—but a new study suggests the real culprit ...

Endurance is shown in the winter of 1915. The ship became stuck in ice and eventually sank. A new paper says it wasn't as well-built as previously believed. A new research paper about the vessel ...

Aubrey Ninnis told his sweetheart of being trapped in pack ice and playing 'too funny for words' football with penguins during the 1914-1917 adventure. The expedition, which was led by the legendary ...

The inaugural Irish Polar Medal was presented to McNish’s great grand-nephew John by sailor and Irish Polar Institute chair Máire Breathnach at an event in the National Yacht Club, Dun Laoghaire, Co ...

Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton's crew famously survived after the Endurance became stuck in ice in 1915. A researcher says the ship was... Famed polar exploration ship Endurance not as strong as ...