An expedition led by the motor yacht MY Legend has completed the first visual survey of the wreck of the SS Terra Nova, ...

“His final voyage kind of ended that heroic age of exploration, of polar exploration, certainly in the south,” said David Mearns, who directed the search to find the wreck. He told the BBC the ...

I’ve always had an interest in polar exploration ... bravery and resilience made him a key figure in the heroic age of Antarctic exploration. Crean was born on a farm in County Kerry, Ireland ...

It was Markham, dubbed "The Father of Polar Exploration", who got the 1901-04 Discovery expedition under way and was responsible for the appointment of Scott as commander. A man accused of living ...

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 ...

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 ...

A century after the golden age of polar exploration, ordinary folks with ... story of meaningless failure at one level and heroic transcendence on the other," said Ross MacPhee, curator of ...

The Government yesterday blocked the export to the United States of two ''unique'' items belonging to twentieth-century polar explorers ... of the ''great heroic age'' of polar exploration.