- The true story of Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the South Pole, and his epic struggle to lead his twenty-eight man crew to safety after his ship was...
- Ernest Shackleton was born on February 15, 1874 in Kilkea, County Kildare, Ireland[1], the son of Henrietta (Gavan) and Henry Shackleton.
- After their ship, Endurance, was crushed in ice floes in 1915, Shackleton spent two years leading his team of 27 men to safety. Yes, you read that right.
- From the whalers, Shackleton learned that the ice conditions in the Weddell Sea were the worst in memory, with pack ice extending far north.
- After Amundsen succeeded in being the first man to reach the South Pole in 1911, Shackleton set out to be the first man to cross Antarctica from sea to sea.
- Paul Hart, Antarctic Quest 21's leader, said the ceremony was for Shackleton and for every person who undertakes these feats to learn more about the planet.
- Shackleton’s most famous expedition, and the one we are going to concentrate now is the Endurance Expedition which begin in August 1914.
- In 1914 Ernest Shackleton, intent on completing the final conquest of Antarctica by crossing the continent from sea to sea, arrived at South Georgia and...
- Over a century after it sank to the depths of the Weddell Sea off the coast of Antarctica, the lost ship of Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton, has been found.
- Kenneth Branagh stars as Sir Ernest Shackleton in this epic two-part drama about the legendary British explorer, which recounts the story of his remarkable...