Professor John Woodward, a glaciologist at Northumbria University, has been awarded the Polar Medal by King Charles III.

The true story of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the the South Pole and his epic struggle to lead his crew to safety after his ship was crushed in the pack ice.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Work is under way on a South Atlantic island to preserve a key building in the story of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton.

Work is under way on a South Atlantic island to preserve a key building in the story of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton. Shackleton famously reached the whaling station of Stromness on South Georgia ...

A race is under way to restore a building used by Irish polar explorers Tom Crean and Ernest Shackleton during their epic mission to rescue the crew of their ship, Endurance. The vessel became trapped ...

A team of carpenters are working to restore the remote wooden villa where Sir Ernest Shackleton planned a heroic rescue of his crew, who were stranded after their ship sank in the Antarctic.

A race is under way to restore a building used by Irish polar explorers Tom Crean and Ernest Shackleton during their epic mission to rescue the crew of their ship, Endurance. The three-man team ...

For eight long months, a small robotic explorer floated through the icy darkness beneath Antarctica’s colossal glaciers. When it finally surfaced, the data it brought back painted a troubling picture ...

The wreck of legendary explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance has been discovered nearly 10,000 feet underwater, at the bottom of the Weddell Sea off the coast of Antarctica, where it sank in ...