5 January 2022 marks the centenary of the death of the famous Anglo-Irish explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and the end of the ‘Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration’. Shackleton’s ship became ...

Few will mention Henry Ernest Shackleton, the Irish merchant sailor turned polar explorer. Shackleton went on to become a knight of the realm, led several Antarctic expeditions ,and climbed an ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of British explorer Ernest Shackleton’s expedition across Antarctica. He dreamed of becoming the first person to cross Antarctica via the ...

The commander of the ship which rescued sailors from Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance has ... ice of the Weddell Sea during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Pardo and his crew on the ...

The release of the LEGO Endurance set sent me down a rabbit hole about Ernest Shackleton, the leader of a failed expedition to cross the continent of Antarctica. The Endurance was sunk on November ...

The HMS Endurance is seen caught in the ice in the Weddell Sea of the Antarctic during Sir Ernest ... one of Shackleton’s contemporaries, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, rightly quipped, “Adventure ...

This sample resource pack for KS1 is designed to complement the Raintree book Ernest Shackleton and offers engaging activities to develop key literacy and cross-curricular skills for KS1 pupils. The ...

Yet, since the great rush to reach the mythical South Pole in the early 20th century, Antarctica has captivated explorers and scientists worldwide. Today, you don’t need to be a hard-core adventurer ...

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.