The misfortune of the British naval ship HMS Endurance resulted in one of the most famous survival stories of all time. Now, the history of the disaster is being rewritten. Irish polar explorer Sir ...

Henry Worsley and Ernest Shackleton are related by more than blood. They are related by their souls. A distant relative, Frank Worsley had accompanied Shackleton on his Antarctic expeditions, ...

Over a century after it sank to the depths of the Weddell Sea off the coast of Antarctica, the lost ship of Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton, has been found. In 1915 the Endurance was trapped by ...

The explorer’s journey to Antarctica was likely doomed before it began. By Sara Novak Ernest Shackleton was sailing for Antarctica on the ship, called the Quest, when he died in 1922. Researchers ...

On Wednesday, a team of technicians and maritime archaeologists called Endurance22 announced that they had located the remains of the Endurance, a 144-foot wooden ship that sank in 1915 during an ...

In 1909, Ernest Henry Shackleton was knighted for journeying to within 97 miles of the South Pole. In 1922, he died of angina pectoris. Last week in London his mother, 81, slipped, fell, broke her ...

British polar explorer Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton established his place in the annals of history after ensuring the survival of his entire crew following the shipwreck of Endurance in 1915. A new ...

An ambitious expedition to locate explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance is closing in on the Antarctic wreck site. Endurance, which was lost in an ice floe off Antarctica more than 100 years ...

Crew members of the Endurance enjoy a quick game of soccer while on a three-year Imperial Trans-Antarctica Expedition in 1915. The 144-foot ship sank in the Anarctic Ocean that same year. Frank Hurley ...

This story originally appeared on Mental Floss. Anglo-Irish explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton made four expeditions to Antarctica in the early 20th century, failing in many of his objectives but becoming ...

Over a century after it sank to the depths of the Weddell Sea off the coast of Antarctica, the lost ship of Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton, has been found. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...