Ernest Shackleton’s expeditions were feats associated with “imperialist expansionism”, the buyer of the explorer’s Polar Medal has argued in a bid to take it overseas. A foreign collector made the ...

The fabled expedition of Ernest Shackleton, the Anglo-Irish explorer who led 27 men on a voyage to Antarctica in 1914 aboard the three-masted barquentine schooner Endurance, only to see his ship sink ...

El viaje del explorador a la Antártida probablemente estaba condenado al fracaso antes de comenzar. By Sara Novak The explorer’s journey to Antarctica was likely doomed before it began. By Sara Novak ...

The historic buildings at a whaling station were built in about 1906 by Norwegian carpenters, but have fallen into disrepair.

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(CNN) – A collection of treasures from one of the greatest polar explorers has sold at auction in London. The items are from Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctica voyages more than a century ago. Shackleton ...

Shackleton famously reached the whaling station of Stromness on South Georgia in 1916 after spending 18 months stranded on Antarctica with his crew. The now-dilapidated Stromness Manager's Villa was ...