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Shackleton’s 101-Year-Old Whisky – Aged in Ice
We recently posted about the world’s oldest champagne found on the Baltic seabed. While not as old, yet equally historic, a case of Shackleton’s Whisky has recently gone on display at the the...
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Captain Robert Falcon Scott – Heroic Leader or Tragic Bungler?
No one is exactly sure when Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his four of his fellow explorers died on their failed Antarctic expedition. Today is observed as the centenary of the deaths because March...
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Recreation of Shackleton’s Epic Lifeboat Voyage Gets Underway
Photo: Shackleton Epic In the Antarctic winter of 1916, Ernest Shackleton and a crew of five sailed in a decked over lifeboat from Elephant Island to South Georgia. They were on a desperate rescue...
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Shackleton Epic Expedition Lands on South Georgia Island – An Ocean Crossed,...
In late January we posted about the “Shackleton Epic Expedition,” led by Australian Tim Jarvis, shoving off from Elephant Island in the lifeboat Alexandra Shackleton, in an attempt to reenact the...
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Searching for Shackleton’s Ship Endurance While Studying the Larsen C Ice Shelf
Next January and February, an expedition to Antarctica will search for Ernest Shackleton‘s doomed ship, Endurance, crushed by the ice in 1915. Finding the wreck of the ship is not the primary objective...
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Stuck in the Ice, Searching for Shackleton’s Endurance
In early February, the Endurance22 expedition set off from Cape Town, South Africa for Antarctica’s Weddell Sea aboard the icebreaking research ship, SA Agulhas II. Their objective is to locate,...
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Scott & Shackleton’s Antarctic Ship Discovery Now Has a “Digital Twin”
RRS Discovery is a barque-rigged auxiliary steamship built for Antarctic research. She was the last traditional wooden three-masted ship to be built in the United Kingdom. Her first mission was the...
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