Author and Polar historian Michael Smith introduces Tom Crean – Irish Antarctic Hero, his new graphic novel (illustrated by ...

Irish-British explorer Ernest Shackleton received a telegram from Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, reading “proceed.” Shackleton, along with his Norwegian ship Endurance and a ...

Ernest Shackleton became the ultimate model for crisis management when his ill-fated 1914 Antarctic expedition met with disaster. His ship, the Endurance, was stranded amidst the expanding ice ...

On 3 June 1916, Stanley had ever seen so many people at the new Town Hall, to welcome Sir Ernest Shackleton who gave a brief account of his late expedition In March 1915 the Endurance was ...

And why would so many choose to follow him? Spontaneous Productions proudly presents its original play about the life of Sir Ernest Shackleton—Antarctic explorer, Edwardian society leader ...

Learn more. I’ve long been fascinated by epic journeys. From Odysseus to Ernest Shackleton, from Vito Corleon to my own great-grandmother — who fled Ukraine in 1899, a 14-year-old stowaway hid ...

Its Polar Museum looks after 5,000 objects, including artefacts linked to explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton. But in the latest effort by the university's museums to deal with ...

Ms Shackleton is president of the James Caird Society dedicated to Sir Ernest and flew to the south of Chile to attend the opening of the exhibition and to pay tribute to the Chilean navy and the ...

It will house exclusive archive collections from the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) and the internationally significant Hope Cross, the original memorial erected to Sir Ernest Shackleton on ...

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Last year the Hope Cross, a poignant memorial to polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton from his crew, went on display at Discovery Point after a journey of more than 7,000 miles from the South ...