Amid fears the wreck will be more accessible to explorers – and new species – as the climate warms, conservationists want to create the region’s first underwater protected area ...

The recent discovery of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance has thrust his epic tale of Antarctic survival into the limelight once again. The story still resonates with readers more than a century ...

Chemicals found inside two of Antarctica's most important historical sites, Earnest Shackleton's and Robert Falcon Scott's ...

Legend has it that Antarctic adventurer Ernest Shackleton posted an advertisement in a London paper before his infamous Endurance expedition: “Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A group of intrepid explorers are readying themselves for the first-ever recreation of the epic voyage made by British explorer Ernest Shackleton on his ill-fated attempt to reach ...

Ernest Shackleton‘s legendary lost ship Endurance, which sank in 1915 in Antarctica, has been discovered 10,000 feet deep at the bottom of the Weddell Sea. The ship, which sank under pack ice as ...

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 ...