Citizen historians have spent decades searching for the original text of Shackleton’s advertisement. Now, some say it might ...

Use these lesson plans to help your students understand more about Ernest Shackleton's leadership, what the Antarctic is like, how sailors can determine their latitude at night, and the ...

Ernest Shackleton died on this day, January 5th, 1922. The Co Kildare man died having become one of Ireland's best-known explorers of the Polar Regions. When you ask people to name an explorer ...

Sir Ernest Shackleton and his team of men set out to conquer the Antarctic continent as the world became embroiled in World War One. All but forgotten back home in Britain, Shackleton's expedition ...

In 1902, Scott, Dr. Edward Wilson, and Ernest Shackleton set out with dog teams and sledges aiming to be the first to reach the South Pole. They pushed south to 82º16.5'S, when scurvy ...

To mark 100 years since the death of Sir Ernest Shackleton, South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory and the Falkland Islands, have joined together to release a ...