As Midwinter Day approaches in Antarctica – the longest and darkest day of the year – those spending the winter on the frozen continent will follow a tradition dating back more than a century to the ...

It's Midwinter Day in Antarctica, the darkest day of the year -- a perfect time to look at the history of isolation madness ...

Over 20 years ago, Michael Smith wrote the definitive biography of Tom Crean. He has now captured the explorer's life in a graphic novel ...

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 ...

SIR Ernest Shackleton’s £1.8 million Polar Medal has quietly left the UK after the Government failed to find a British buyer, the Sun on Sunday can ...

It's the latest in LEGO's promotion of itself as a lifestyle and a just a brand for kids, but also for adults. These sets incorporate themselves into a room's aesthetic, as artwork on the walls ...

I ask Enda if it ever gets weird, being the descendant of a man who, for a certain set of people, is as legendary as any figure of the so-called “Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration”.

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.

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 ...

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.