Much has been written on Antarctic explorer, Ernest Shackleton. This is the story of the Enduranc...

In November 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton watched horrified as the grinding ice floes of the Weddel...

Ever since Captain Cook first sailed into the Great Southern Ocean in 1773, mankind has sought to...

In 1943, with the German Sixth Army annihilated at Stalingrad and Rommel's Afrika Korps in full r...

Soldiers and sailors, geographers and geologists, submariners and balloonists all flocked to Anta...

In 1860, Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote that 'The degree of civilisation in a society can be judged by e...