Two Steamers Will support Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition. LONDON, Feb. 28—Total abstinence from alcoholic stimulants will be strictly observed during sir Ernest Shackleton’s ...

ANTARCTICA – 1916: Members of an expedition team led by Irish explorer Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton pull one of their lifeboats across the snow in the Antarctic, following the loss of the Endurance.

In August 1914, just as World War I was beginning, British explorer Ernest Shackleton set sail from Plymouth, England, with a 28-man crew and a ship presciently called the Endurance.

While the 1921-1922 Shackleton-Rowlett Expedition briefly tried to continue on, Shackleton’s death is widely considered to mark the end of the so-call “ Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.” ...

In the wake of Roald Amundsen's 1911 expedition that became the first to successfully reach the South Pole, Sir Ernest Shackleton mounted his Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914, which was ...

The recent discovery of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance has thrust his epic tale of Antarctic survival into the limelight once again. The story still resonates with readers more than a ...

The wreckage of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship "Endurance", which was crushed by Antarctic ice and sank some 10,000 feet (3,000 m) to the ocean floor more than a century ago, has been ...

LONDON (AP) — Scientists say they have found the sunken wreck of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance, more than a century after it was lost to the Antarctic ice. The Falklands ...

An expedition set off from South Africa last month to search for the ship, which was crushed by ice and sank in November 1915 during Shackleton’s failed attempt to become the first person to ...