The historic buildings at a whaling station were built in about 1906 by Norwegian carpenters, but have fallen into disrepair.
Ernest Shackleton’s expeditions were feats associated with “imperialist expansionism”, the buyer of the explorer’s Polar Medal has argued in a bid to take it overseas. A foreign collector made the ...
Shackleton famously reached the whaling station of Stromness on South Georgia in 1916 after spending 18 months stranded on Antarctica with his crew. The now-dilapidated Stromness Manager's Villa was ...
The fabled expedition of Ernest Shackleton, the Anglo-Irish explorer who led 27 men on a voyage to Antarctica in 1914 aboard the three-masted barquentine schooner Endurance, only to see his ship sink ...
More than a century after it sank off the coast of Antarctica, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship HMS Endurance has been located, apparently intact and in good condition. The ship, which sank in ...
El viaje del explorador a la Antártida probablemente estaba condenado al fracaso antes de comenzar. By Sara Novak The explorer’s journey to Antarctica was likely doomed before it began. By Sara Novak ...
This story originally appeared on Mental Floss. Anglo-Irish explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton made four expeditions to Antarctica in the early 20th century, failing in many of his objectives but becoming ...