Well, that's the fascination with Shackleton. Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition lasted from 1914 to 1917. It was meant to make the first land crossing of Antarctica, but Endurance ...

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

He's most famous, of course, for his third - the ill-fated Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917. Trapped in sea-ice for over 10 months, his Endurance ship drifted around the Weddell Sea ...

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 ...

1. “Endurance” chronicles Ernest Shackleton’s failed imperial trans-Antarctic expedition, the first attempt to traverse the Antarctic continent. The expedition, launched in 1914, was cut ...

Ernest Shackleton died on this day, January 5th, 1922. The Co Kildare man died having become one of Ireland's best-known explorers of the Polar Regions. When you ask people to name an explorer ...

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 ...

Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition is one of the best-known tales of survival and endurance. The expedition set out in 1914 to make the first land crossing of Antarctica but had to ...

Famed for his voyages to Antarctica – including the unsuccessful Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition between 1914 and 1917, during which his ship Endurance was crushed by ice in the Weddell Sea – ...

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 ...

Shackleton’s most famous exploit happened during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition when attempting to cross the Antarctic at the South Pole, journeying from sea to sea. His ship, Endurance, was ...