Our obsession with the Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton is emblematic of a problematic tendency: that of celebrating ...

Shackleton is most famous for his previous Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917 in which he and his men escaped on foot and in lifeboats from the Endurance ship that was crushed by ice.

One hundred years ago this month Sir Ernest Shackleton set sail from Plymouth on HMS Endurance at the beginning of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-17), also known as the Endurance ...

Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914 aimed to be the first to cross the snowy mass of Antarctica, passing through the South Pole on the way. But he never even got ...

WEDDELL SEA EXPEDITION 2019 The icebreaker SA Agulhas II has been the base for the survey The story of Shackleton's ill-fated 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition has become the stuff of ...

The British Film Institute (BFI) has restored footage taken during Ernest Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition, including the poignant moment the ship’s mast collapses as Endurance ...

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 ...

The Endurance was crushed in the ice and sank during Shackleton’s 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. It has lain ...

Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Discovery 1901-1904 Sponsored by the Royal Geographical Society, Scott led the British National Antarctic Expedition with the goal of geographical exploration from a ...

His exploration ship Endurance was trapped by ice and then sank partway through his 1914-1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, leaving his entire group stranded on ice floes. After two months ...

Of those three missions, one stands out the most, and not for the discoveries made: the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Having departed at the onset of the First World War, in 1914 ...