A memorial to polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton will travel more than 7,000 thousand miles to Dundee to commemorate the 150th anniversary of his birth. The wooden cross from Shackleton’s Hope ...
The Short and Mason aneroid barometer is accompanied by a signed letter which states: “This aneroid barometer was taken to the Antarctic on the Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition 1921–22 ...
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Wreck of polar explorer Shackleton’s last ship foundShackleton suffered a fatal heart attack aboard the Quest in 1922, aged 47, while trying to reach the Antarctic for a fourth expedition. The vessel remained in use for another 40 years until it ...
In 1921, Shackleton returned to the sub-Antarctic on the Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition. More commonly known as the Quest expedition, it was to be Shackleton’s fourth and final expedition.
The Endurance, the ship of famed polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, had been lost for 107 years after being crushed by ice and sinking during the ill-fated 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
The documentary follows the expedition of archaeologist, Mensun Bound, as he and his crew search for the remains of Shackleton's vessel Endurance, which sank to the bottom of the Weddell Sea in 1915.
Shackleton returned once again to the Antarctic In 1921 with the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition, which, as fate would have it, would be his last ever. He died of a heart attack while his ship was ...
Follow the path of the 1999 expedition aboard the Akademik Shuleykin as they revisited the remote locales of Shackleton's epic journey. The 1999 route is marked as a dashed line in green ...
In January 2019, the S.A. Agulhas II, laden with cutting edge exploration equipment, set off on an unprecedented 45-day expedition to recover Sir Earnest Shackleton’s lost ship Endurance.
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New 3D scans reveal stunning details of Shackleton's doomed Endurance expedition to AntarcticaThe intricate details of the sunken Endurance, the ship lost on Sir Ernest Shackleton's doomed 1914 Antarctic expedition, have been revealed through 3D scans and underwater photographs.
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