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 ...

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, ...

How Did Shackleton Survive The Endurance Expedition? History Hit is aboard an expedition to locate one of the world’s most famous shipwrecks, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance. Trapped and eventually ...

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

A robotic float has measured the temperature and salinity from parts of the ocean never sampled before—underneath massive floating ice shelves in East Antarctica. For two and a half years, an Argo ...

The original version of this article first appeared on ExplorersWeb. The Endurance set sail from Plymouth, England, in 1914 with a crew of past and future polar icons aboard. But true fame only found ...

While tracing the footsteps of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his ill-fated Endurance ship, researchers discovered hundreds of fish nests arranged in particular patterns. A remotely operated ...