Back in the glory years of Earth’s mightiest explorers, a brave few risked fortunes and lives just at have the opportunity to say they’ve been the first to do something or reach some place. And at the ...

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

An artifact of the pioneering days of Antarctic exploration is going up for auction at the Bonhams Bonhams Travel and Exploration Sale in London. The 11-ft (3.4-m) sledge was used by Lieutenant ...

In 1907, explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton set out on the Nimrod expedition: one attempt at becoming the first to trek across Antarctica and reach the South Pole. The journey was stocked with, among ...

Henry Worsley and Ernest Shackleton are related by more than blood. They are related by their souls. A distant relative, Frank Worsley had accompanied Shackleton on his Antarctic expeditions, ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Situated on the remote Ross Island, at Cape Royds in Antarctica, is a ...

What if one of the most famous and formidable Antarctic exploration vessels in history, whose crew's story of shipwreck and survival has been told for more than a century, wasn't as strong as legend ...