The 1999 route is marked as a dashed line in green; Shackleton's fateful path is shown as a solid blue line. Click on the inset map of South Georgia to see Shackleton's route across South Georgia ...

Claudius Ptolemy (150 AD) map drawn from Ptolemy's coordinates for a 1482 edition of his Geographia (The Ulm Edition, Leinhard Holle) Lands beyond the bounds of the known world tantalized the ...

A British military expedition to retrace the footsteps of explorer Ernest Shackleton set sail from Gosport, Hampshire this week on an epic voyage to the Southern Atlantic. The Army-led joint ...

Sir Ernest Shackleton and his team of men set out to conquer the Antarctic continent as the world became embroiled in World War One. All but forgotten back home in Britain, Shackleton's expedition ...

British Antarctic Survey’s detailed map of the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia featuring the epic “Shackleton Crossing” has won an award at the 2018 British Cartography Society Awards.

One is the ill-fated voyage of Ernest Shackleton, on the ship bearing this film’s name, to attempt a sea-to-sea crossing of the continent via the South Pole – a mission that infamously fell ...