Sailors from HMS Argyll followed in the footsteps of Britain’s greatest polar explorer when they recreated Sir Ernest ... Shackleton’s legendary trek across the snow and ice of South Georgia ...

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of ocean before reaching the island of South Georgia. The last voyage Ernest Shackleton took was on board the Quest in 1922. He had planned to explore Alaska and islands nearby, but lost his funding.

the island seems almost tropically lush. (In Antarctica there are two native species of vascular plants; on South Georgia there are 26.) To the explorer Ernest Shackleton—whose ship Endurance ...

Currently, A23a is about 280km from the island. South Georgia will be familiar to many fans of polar exploration. It's the spot where Ernest Shackleton and five men landed after an incredible 1 ...

In Ernest Shackleton's view ... on the remote but inhabited island of South Georgia. That they survived such a long voyage despite stormy weather and ferocious seas in a small boat is remarkable ...

The set of stamps celebrating the great Antarctic explorer's life To mark 100 years since the death of Sir Ernest Shackleton, South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic ...

Ernest Shackleton and crew head out from Elephant Island in a makeshift open sea craft. Following a voyage of 16 days they arrived at South Georgia, also in Antarctica. Determined to reach a ...

“This ocean current path has been known since Shackleton’s time, he said, referring to Sir Ernest Henry ... A map of South Georgia and Sandwich Islands: Eventually, this big iceberg will ...

The gigantic wall of ice is moving slowly from Antarctica on a potential collision course with South Georgia ... of water that famed explorer Ernest Shackleton used in 1916 to make his storied ...

Shackleton's South is film-maker Frank Hurley's astonishing documentary of Sir Ernest Shackleton's heroic ... 800-mile voyage to inhabited South Georgia Island. This incredible historical document ...