Mensun Bound, Director of Exploration, Endurance 22, Trustee, Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust Together underlines, “these discoveries illuminate the enduring legacy of the Heroic Age of Polar ...

With economy and polish, Wilkinson tells how on July 11, 1897, Andrée and two compatriots set off for the North Pole in a 1.5-ton, 97-foot-tall hydrogen-filled balloon.

The age of European exploration was also the age of empires. When wild-bearded white men committed bold acts of derring-do on the margins of the map, they smoothed the path for the machinery of ...

Scott or Shackleton… who was the greatest British polar explorer of the Heroic Age? It's a matter of opinion, of course, but here are the bare facts: Captain Robert Falcon Scott reached the ...

A century after the golden age of polar exploration, folks with some spending money and a taste for adventure — but who'd rather forego the frostbite, starvation and killer-whale attacks — can ...

The Explorers Club was founded in New York City in 1904, in an era I like to call the heroic age of exploration. At a time when significant areas on the Earth’s surface were still terra ...

The Government yesterday blocked the export to the United States of two ''unique'' items belonging to twentieth-century polar explorers Captain Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton, in a bid to save ...

Locating the Quest – a schooner-rigged steamship which sank on a 1962 seal hunting voyage – represents a last link to the “heroic age of Antarctic exploration”, said search leader John Geiger.