EXPERTS have discovered the real reasons Ernest Shackleton’s ship sank on its ill-fated Antarctic expedition in 1915. And it suggests the famed polar explorer may have known the Endurance ...

A new museum dedicated to the life of the explorer Ernest Shackleton opens in Athy in Co Kildare today. The Shackleton ...

Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton's crew famously survived after the Endurance became stuck in ice in 1915. A researcher ...

How Did Shackleton Survive The Endurance Expedition? History Hit is aboard an expedition to locate one of the world’s most ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance wasn't reinforced for navigating Antarctic ice, a new study ...

The story of Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition aboard the Endurance is the stuff of maritime legend and has been for over a century. The vessel was considered one of the strongest polar ships ...

People have said Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship, Endurance, was the toughest wooden vessel of its age. A new study proves ...

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 ...

On Oct. 27, 1915, after being caught and crushed by packed ice for nine months in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica, Ernest Shackleton and his crew abandoned the Endurance and their quest to traverse the ...

Ernest Shackleton was sailing for Antarctica on the ship, called the Quest, when he died in 1922. Researchers exulted over the discovery of its wreckage, 62 years after it sank in the Labrador Sea. By ...

An auction house in Carlisle is selling a letter signed by Sir Ernest Shackleton. The letter, which is expected to fetch between £500 and £1,000, is part of this month’s three-day auction at Laidlaw ...

Relative of legendary polar explorer Ernest Shackleton fulfills family dream. Feb. 9, 2010— -- When Navy Commander Scott Shackleton stepped off a C-130 aircraft and set foot on the South Pole ...