On Aug. 1, 1914, Irish-born British explorer Ernest Shackleton left London for what he believed would be "the last great polar journey of the Heroic Age of Exploration" -- the first transcontinental ...

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 incognita, ...

LONDON (AP) — Cambridge University says it has raised 275,000 pounds ($458,000) to buy rare photographic negatives from Capt. Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated Antarctic expedition. Scott, an icon of ...

It is one of the most intrepid polar expeditions in history, costing five men their lives in 1912. Now, the wreck of SS Terra Nova, which transported Captain Robert Scott and his men to Antarctica, ...

Endurance is shown in the winter of 1915. The ship became stuck in ice and eventually sank. A new paper says it wasn't as well-built as previously believed. (Frank Hurley | Scott Polar Research ...

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What if one of the most famous and formidable Antarctic exploration vessels in history, whose crew’s story of shipwreck and survival has been told for more than a century, wasn’t as strong as legend ...