Follow the path of the 1999 expedition aboard the Akademik ... Click on the inset map of South Georgia to see Shackleton's route across South Georgia, which Reinhold Messner, Conrad Anker, and ...

Shackleton planned to be the first person to cross Antarctica. He was headed for the area of Coats Land (in the Weddell Sea) when his ship got stuck in pack ice. In Shackleton's original plan ...

The Shackleton portion of the map is reproduced at 1:40,000 scale ... The new map was produced in collaboration with the expedition and advisory panel at the government of South Georgia and ...

Today, the Shackleton Crossing is popular for mountaineers wishing to follow in the path of the great explorer’s expedition. Laura Gerrish, GIS & Mapping Specialist at BAS, says “This map is ...

Shackleton left Plymouth in September 1921 intending to map still uncharted coastal regions of the White Continent. But he died during the expedition. The new plaque was unveiled in Plymouth on ...

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 ...

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.

The ship’s name can still be seen clearly above a golden star on its stern. Shackleton’s expedition left England in August ...

The documentary follows the expedition of archaeologist, Mensun Bound, as he and his crew search for the remains of Shackleton's vessel Endurance, which sank to the bottom of the Weddell Sea in 1915.