Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Polar Medal was awarded to Ernest Shackleton for saving his stranded crew in extreme conditions Ernest Shackleton’s ...

The crumbling wooden house on South Georgia Island, where Sir Ernest Shackleton organized the rescue of his crew in 1916, is being restored.

In January 1915, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship, Endurance, became icebound in the Antarctic. What happened next would become legend: Shackleton and his crew watched their ship slowly sink, ...

Explorers are readying themselves for the first-ever re-creation of the epic voyage made by Britain's Ernest Shackleton on his ill-fated attempt to reach the South Pole in 1914, on an exact copy of ...

During the "Heroic Age of Exploration," the period in which Shackleton's 1914-1916 British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition took place, Antarctic expeditions often became ordeals of suffering. At ...

Relative of legendary polar explorer Ernest Shackleton fulfills family dream. Feb. 9, 2010— -- When Navy Commander Scott Shackleton stepped off a C-130 aircraft and set foot on the South Pole ...

The Endurance, the ship of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton which was lost in 1915, has been found off the coast of Antarctica. Back in 1915, Shackleton and his crew aboard the vessel became trapped ...

LONDON (AP) — Scientists say they have found the sunken wreck of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance, more than a century after it was lost to the Antarctic ice. Watch footage of the ...

The great polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton never achieved his goal of traversing the continent of Antarctica, but is remembered these days for something more extraordinary. One hundred years ago, ...