His Greenland explorations won admirers like John Franklin and William Scoresby. But Karl Ludwig Giesecke is best known for ...

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 ...

British polar explorer Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton established his place in the annals of history after ensuring the survival of his entire crew following the shipwreck of Endurance in 1915. A new ...

Captain Preet Chandi MBE, born in Derby, a distinguished polar explorer and record-holder, has been named the new Expedition Leader for the Clean Planet Peninsula Project. In her new role with the ...

“She was doomed, no ship built by human hands could have withstood the strain.” When polar explorer Ernest Shackleton wrote this journal entry on October 27, 1915, his dreams of reaching Antarctica ...

A world-first study reveals the famed polar explorer was aware of worrying structural shortcomings in the ill-fated ship — Endurance was not designed for compressive ice conditions — yet it set sail ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. On November 23, 1935, explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, with pilot Herbert Hollick-Kenyon, took off in the Polar Star from ...