It also carries the hopes of every Shackleton enthusiast the world over. The man at the helm is Captain Knowledge Bengu, a 41-year-old from Durban of many years Antarctic experience. Beside him is ...
Endurance follows the crew's determination to locate the ship while also depicting the trials that Shackleton and his Endurance crew were forced to endure in the Antarctic in order to survive more ...
The Endurance, the lost vessel of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, was found at the weekend at the bottom of the Weddell Sea. The ship was crushed by sea-ice and sank in 1915, forcing ...
Shackleton went on to become a knight of the realm, led several Antarctic expeditions ,and climbed an active Antarctic volcano. Born in 1874 in County Kildare, Shackleton resisted his father’s ...