Exclusive: The H5N1 virus reached the region late last year and is killing wildlife, with witnesses spotting numerous seal corpses on South Georgia island The grave of the explorer Ernest Shackleton ...

Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton had to return home after voyaging close to the South Pole in 1901 due to a bout of 'beriberi' and not scurvy, a new study claims. Researchers from ...

Alexandra Shackleton, granddaughter of explorer Ernest Shackleton (Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire). Sir Ernest Shackleton, the great English polar explorer died in 1922 at the age of 47 in Grytviken, South ...

When Sir Ernest Shackleton returned home from the Nimrod Expedition in 1909, he got a hero’s welcome — and a knighthood. But money was tight, so the Antarctic explorer embarked on a punishing schedule ...

Sir Ernest Shackleton is a poignant absence in this fragment from the closing chapter in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. The Shackleton-Rowett Expedition and their ship the Quest docked at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of carpenters are working to restore the remote wooden villa where Sir Ernest Shackleton planned a heroic rescue of his ...

The wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's last ship, Quest, was found off Canada's coast, 62 years after it vanished, using sonar scans by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. The wreck of Sir Ernest ...