“Greetings, everybody,” he said on his broadcast. “When my hero Ernest Shackleton walked ninety-seven miles from the South Pole on the morning of January 9, 1909, he said he’d shot his bolt.

Three men with links to Sir Ernest Shackleton have reached the South Pole. Lt Col Henry Worsley, from Hereford, Will Gow, from Kent, and Henry Adams, from Suffolk, arrived on Sunday. The team ...

National Geographic's new documentary on Disney+, Endurance, displays the search for the remains of the famed explorer, Ernest ... reached the South Pole in 1911. Regardless, Shackleton's ...

When you ask people to name an explorer of the Polar Regions, many will name Robert Falcon Scott, who led a doomed expedition to the South Pole. Few will mention Henry Ernest Shackleton ...

Sir Ernest Shackleton, born in Kilkea ... In 1901, he was chosen to join an expedition to the South Pole led by Robert Falcon Scott – also known as Scott of the Antarctic.

Ernest Shackleton was born in County Kildare, Ireland, in 1874. In 1901, alongside explorer Robert Falcon Scott, he got closer to the South Pole than any other European explorer. Shackleton's most ...

One hundred years on from the death of the famous polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton ... Early explorers raced to be the first to reach the South Pole and to conquer the planet’s furthest ...

How do you do, Ollie? I’m Robert Falcon Scott. I set out in 1911 to be the first person to reach the South Pole. I knew that Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer ...

After 107 years beneath the icy waters of the Antarctic, Sir Ernest Shackleton's lost ship, the Endurance, has been rediscovered, and its remarkable story is now being brought to audiences through ...