The Legacy of Shackleton and His Crew The story of Shackleton ... Their initial mission was to complete the first crossing of Antarctica, but the expedition quickly turned into a desperate ...

Before his journey on the Endurance, Shackleton was part of two different expeditions in Antarctica. Per Britannica, he was working as a sublieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve when he joined the ...

In Ernest Shackleton's view, there was only one course of action. Never mind that it was an act of desperation. He and a few of his men would have to leave Antarctica's Elephant Island and summon ...

Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship, Endurance, has been found after 107 years. This 4k footage shows the preserved vessel 3008 metres below the ocean surface, discovered just four miles south of the ...

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But Shackleton himself was haunted by the fate of the men of his expedition on the other side of Antarctica, stranded for more than two years. The lesser-known story of the Ross Sea party has been ...

was the most decorated Polar explorer of the great heroic age and second in command to Ernest Shackleton on the ill-fated Endurance expedition to Antarctica's South Pole.

A discovery over a century in the making! About 107 years after explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship was crushed by ice while traveling to Antarctica in 1915, the vessel has been found — and it's ...