Artifacts from Shackleton's polar expeditions have been auctioned at Sotheby's in London, including a map of Antarctica hand-drawn by the Anglo-Irish explorer. Several items from Shackleton's ...

A collection of treasures from Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctica voyage has been sold at auction in London this week. The timing couldn’t be better, as the wreck of his ship HMS Endurance was finally ...

A newly restored image shows exactly the books Shackleton brought with him, and gives us a glimpse what got him and his expedition through their frigid months marooned in Antarctica. The Royal ...

Growing up in the Falkland Islands, maritime archaeologist Mensun Bound was enamored with tales of adventure and stories of the sea. He was particularly taken with the saga of Ernest Shackleton, the ...

More than 100 years after it was trapped and crushed by ice and sank in the Antarctic, explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship, the Endurance, has been found in the chilly depths of the ocean. Here’s what ...

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 ...

On this day in 1922, the world lost one of its most courageous figures when Ernest Shackleton passed away during his final Antarctic expedition. While his shipwrecks and rivalries defined much of his ...

(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 ...