The Royal Navy paid homage to the bravery and expertise of its Chilean counterpart during a ceremony in Punta Arenas. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 – ...

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 ...

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 limited edition coat is named after Frank Hurley, the official photographer of Sir Ernest Shackleton on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914-17. Designed to shield off the harshest ...