Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole, An Empire of Ice presents a new take on Antarctic exploration. Retold with added information, it's the first ...

Guest speaker Charles Murray followed in the footsteps of some of the great adventurers of the past on a 19-day 4,734 nautical mile cruise.

It launched the Antarctic careers of many who would become leading figures in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, including Scott, Ernest Shackleton, Edward Wilson, Frank Wild, Tom Crean and ...

Indeed, virtually all the great moments of the "Heroic Age" of Antarctic exploration -- Scott's dash toward doom in 1911, the icy implosion of Shackleton's ship Endurance in 1915, Byrd's ecstatic ...

The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration refers to the period of 1897-1917 when several expeditions took place to explore the Antarctic. Logbook data was used from the following ships: ...

In 1901, RRS Discovery helped launch the “Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration” when it took exploration luminaries like Robert Falcon Scott (who led the expedition) and Ernest Shackleton on ...

Crean was born on a farm in County Kerry, Ireland, in 1877. At age 15, he ran away and joined the Royal Navy, beginning a career that would make him a celebrated figure of exploration.

Shackleton’s death in 1922 ended what historians call the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration and ushered in the Mechanical Age. A few years before, on his third expedition to the continent, ...

The heroic age was punctuated by great hardship and sacrifice. The first president of the Explorers Club was Adolphus Greely, who led a U.S. Army expedition above the Arctic Circle in 1881.