Captain Robert Scott was the British Antarctic explorer who led an expedition to claim the South Pole in England’s honor.

It's one of the world's most famous shipwrecks, marooned nearly 10,000 feet deep beneath the surface of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. Endurance, owned by legendary Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest ...

They were ‘land masses’ that appeared on explorers’ charts for more than a century – recorded, searched for, and sometimes ...

The recurring image of a toy submarine in the art of Reinhard Behrens transports us to his world, writes Susan Mansfield​ ...

On Oct. 27, 1915, after being caught and crushed by packed ice for nine months in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica, Ernest ...

Chances are you know someone who is training for a marathon or another endurance race. Harry Bullmore asks athletes and adventurers whether these events will really satisfy our deep-rooted desire for ...

The Arctic may be warmer than the Antarctic, but the shifting ... but offered no other proof. In 2005, explorer Jim McNeill asked scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center and the Scott ...

Explorer's cabin had been used as a shed in Norway for most of a century — but now it's been brought back to his Irish birthplace and meticulously restored Ernest Shackleton on board the Endurance in ...

Three weeks after explorer Ernest Shackleton ordered his men to abandon their ship, Endurance, in the fall of 1915, the vessel sank off the coast of Antarctica. Its fate has long been attributed to a ...

Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton's crew famously survived after the Endurance became stuck in ice in 1915. A researcher ...

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Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton's crew famously survived after the Endurance became stuck in ice in 1915. A researcher says the ship was... Famed polar exploration ship Endurance not as strong as ...