The government and treasury of the South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands issued on 26 February new crown coins that commemorate the birth of the famous explorer, Sir Ernest Shackleton. Born on ...

Sue Halliwell marks the 150th anniversary of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s birth by tracing his ill-fated British ...

South Georgia is a resurrected wonderland of Southern Ocean fauna after the ravages of the sealing and whaling eras. Today it ...

of ocean before reaching the island of South Georgia. The last voyage Ernest Shackleton took was on board the Quest in 1922. He had planned to explore Alaska and islands nearby, but lost his funding.

the island seems almost tropically lush. (In Antarctica there are two native species of vascular plants; on South Georgia there are 26.) To the explorer Ernest Shackleton—whose ship Endurance ...

In Ernest Shackleton's view ... on the remote but inhabited island of South Georgia. That they survived such a long voyage despite stormy weather and ferocious seas in a small boat is remarkable ...

Game of Thrones style ice wall on course to hit British island - The world’s largest iceberg, stretching from horizon to horizon, is on course to hit South Georgia Island ...

Citizen historians have spent decades searching for the original text of Shackleton’s advertisement. Now, some say it might never have existed ...

Currently, A23a is about 280km from the island. South Georgia will be familiar to many fans of polar exploration. It's the spot where Ernest Shackleton and five men landed after an incredible 1 ...

The gigantic wall of ice is moving slowly from Antarctica on a potential collision course with South Georgia ... of water that famed explorer Ernest Shackleton used in 1916 to make his storied ...