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

A robotic ocean float that scientists thought was lost under Antarctica’s thick ice has surprisingly resurfaced, bringing ...

Over a century after it sank to the depths of the Weddell Sea off the coast of Antarctica, the lost ship of Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton, has been found. In 1915 the Endurance was trapped by ...

Shackleton famously reached the whaling station of Stromness on South Georgia in 1916 after spending 18 months stranded on Antarctica with his crew. The now-dilapidated Stromness Manager's Villa was ...

"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 had ...

"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 ...