Explorer Fiennes (Cold) draws on his own experiences in Antarctica in this sympathetic if somewhat dry biography of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1921). Fiennes contends that Shackleton's ...

National Geographic gives an exclusive look at the wreck of Endurance, which has not been seen since it sank in 1915. Wednesday, March 9, 2022 More than a century after it sank off the coast of ...

The wreck of the ship used for Sir Ernest Shackleton's final Antarctic expedition has been located by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS) off the coast of Labrador. The Quest, aboard which ...

The so-called Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration ran from the 1890s to the early 1920s. Its stars still burn brightly—perhaps especially so in our own gruesomely unheroic times—with Ernest Shackleton ...

The wreckage of the Quest, the vessel used by famed Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, was found earlier this week, 62 years after it sank off the coast of Canada. The discovery was made by an ...

Over the years, physicians and historians have attributed Shackleton's failing health during his Antarctic expeditions to scurvy or a congenital heart defect. By studying other explorers and learning ...