The fabled expedition of Ernest Shackleton, the Anglo-Irish explorer who led 27 men on a voyage to Antarctica in 1914 aboard the three-masted barquentine schooner Endurance, only to see his ship sink ...

The wreckage of the Quest, the vessel used by famed Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, was found earlier this week, 62 years after it sank off the coast of Canada. The discovery was made by an ...

Legend has it that Antarctic adventurer Ernest Shackleton posted an advertisement in a London paper before his infamous Endurance expedition: “Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, ...

Relative of legendary polar explorer Ernest Shackleton fulfills family dream. Feb. 9, 2010— -- When Navy Commander Scott Shackleton stepped off a C-130 aircraft and set foot on the South Pole ...

El viaje del explorador a la Antártida probablemente estaba condenado al fracaso antes de comenzar. By Sara Novak The explorer’s journey to Antarctica was likely doomed before it began. By Sara Novak ...

The historic buildings at a whaling station were built in about 1906 by Norwegian carpenters, but have fallen into disrepair.

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Ed Webster will be at the Rangeley Public Library on Wednesday, August 10th, ...

More than 100 years after it was trapped and crushed by ice and sank in the Antarctic, explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship, the Endurance, has been found in the chilly depths of the ocean. Here’s what ...

The world today is smaller and less mysterious than when Endurance sank. At the same time, we know too much about the past to be nostalgic. By Jody Rosen Sometimes history speaks in rhyme. On March 5, ...

Tim Jarvis’s Plan to Cross the Antarctic in an Exact Replica of the James Caird K. Annabelle Smith The original lifeboat, the James Caird, built in 1914, had an open top, exposing its inhabitants to ...