Citizen historians have spent decades searching for the original text of Shackleton’s advertisement. Now, some say it might ...

Discovered by the West not much more than 200 years ago, Antarctica’s history is unique when compared to the six other ...

As I embarked the Seabourn Venture in Ushuaia, Argentina, the southernmost city in the world, I knew my mission to play golf ...

The Antarctic continent is cold, dark, and desolate for much of the year, so scientists want a cuddly feline companion to ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of British explorer Ernest Shackleton ... to cross Antarctica via the South Pole. But his hopes were dashed when his ship, Endurance ...

Ernest Shackleton died on this day ... His biggest test came in 1914 though, with the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. When his ship Endurance was trapped by pack ice and then slowly sank ...

The biggest iceberg on Earth is heading toward a remote island, creating a potential threat to penguins and seals inhabiting ...

Dive into a bit of history in the waters surrounding this remote Antarctic island, the site of famed explorer Sir Ernest ...

Year 5 pupils in Irvinestown Primary School had an ‘ice’ time when they took part in a live video call to Antarctica recently ...

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.

His tale is irresistibly cinematic: the icebound ship, the desperate march ... in the ice in the Weddell Sea of the Antarctic during Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition ...

The world’s biggest iceberg — a wall of ice the size of Rhode Island — is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica ...