Ernest Shackleton’s expeditions were feats associated with “imperialist expansionism”, the buyer of the explorer’s Polar Medal has argued in a bid to take it overseas.

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 ...

It is on the expedition’s return leg that the team will aim to find Shackleton’s legendary ship, Endurance, crushed by pack and sank An Antarctic scientific expedition aiming to understand the ...

Sir Ernest Shackleton’s iconic ship, Endurance, sank crushed by ice in the Weddell Sea in November 1915. The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust (FMHT) is planning an expedition – Endurance22 ...

What began as Shackleton’s ambitious plan to be the first to traverse the Antarctic continent instead became one of the most ...

And, whereas Shackleton had been part of a large expedition, Worsley, who was fifty-five, was crossing alone and unsupported: no food caches had been deposited along the route to help him ...

Shackleton’s main plan was to be the first team to cross the Antarctic Continent – to start on one side, cross the South Pole and continue to the other side. He gathered a top crew to join the ...