The celebrated polar explorer was buried there, and the ship and crew continued on, trying to complete the so-called Shackleton-Rowett Expedition. But heavy ice made it difficult to complete the ...

The Shackleton-Rowett expedition's goals were unclear, though Shackleton described it as an "oceanographic and ...

Follow the path of the 1999 expedition aboard the Akademik Shuleykin as they revisited the remote locales of Shackleton's epic journey. The 1999 route is marked as a dashed line in green ...

The Quest's crew paid their respects at the grave of their leader on return to South Georgia It's 100 years to the day since Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton set out on his final expedition.

In January 2019, the S.A. Agulhas II, laden with cutting edge exploration equipment, set off on an unprecedented 45-day expedition to recover Sir Earnest Shackleton’s lost ship Endurance.

In 1921, Shackleton returned to the sub-Antarctic on the Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition. More commonly known as the Quest expedition, it was to be Shackleton’s fourth and final expedition.

All but forgotten back home in Britain, Shackleton's expedition drifted with the ice for nearly two years. Facing hunger, loneliness, near-mutiny and what has come to be known as the greatest ...

Shackleton is most famous for his previous Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917 in which ... of the Quest financial backer John Quiller Rowett was also at the unveiling at the Duke ...

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

The National Geographic movie 'Endurance' brings Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition to life using colorized footage and cutting edge techniques, blending historical and modern narratives ...

Ernest Shackleton the famed Antarctic explorer has had his 137th birthday celebrated with a new Google Doodle on the search engine's homepage. Yesterday Valentine's Day got the Doodle treatment ...