Captain Robert Falcon Scott. In the documentary, the expedition leader, Dr. John Shears, states that Shackleton had the ability to persuade Scott to take "a merchant marine all the way to the ...

with Shackleton, Endurance’s captain Frank Worsley, and Tom Crean on board, passed through the channels on the west side of Tierra del Fuego, picking up coal at Picton Island before sailing ...

After three frustrated attempts to rescue the Elephant Island group, Shackleton persuaded the Chilean Government to provide the Yelcho (a 36.5 meter steam tug) under Captain Pardo. With Shackleton ...

Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship, Endurance ... just four miles south of the location recorded at the time by ship’s captain, Frank Worsley. Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox!

On learning of the three deaths, he and his two companions laid down on the ice, signalling the Aurora's captain about the lost men. At Shackleton's behest, they searched for Mackintosh and ...

A captain in the Royal Marines, Orde-Lees was in charge of the motor-sledges that would have helped carry Shackleton's team across the continent. A graduate of the English public-school system ...

The expedition, aboard the Agulhas II, is trying to locate the shipwrecked Endurance, the vessel abandoned by Captain Ernest ...

The expedition - which included Ernest Shackleton - reached further south than anyone before them and Scott returned to Britain a national hero. He had caught the exploring bug and began to plan ...