CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The release of the LEGO Endurance set sent me down a rabbit hole about Ernest Shackleton, the leader of a failed expedition to cross the continent of Antarctica.

SOURCES: BBC, The Guardian, sgmuseum.gs, navyhistory.au The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition is a ...

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 ...