In December 1911, Roald Amundsen and his crew reached the South Pole, beating his rival, Robert Falcon Scott, by 35 days.

Babcock has marked two major milestones at its Rosyth shipyard in Scotland as the keel was laid for HMS Formidable, the third ...

The 1985 discovery of the RMS Titanic changed the field of maritime archaeology forever, proving that even deeply sunken ships […] ...

The tale of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew surviving a shipwreck and harsh conditions is one of hope and perseverance. And it turned out the ship carrying them endured its own ...

During an expedition to search for a famed shipwreck, researchers discovered something unexpected: striking geometric patterns on the floor of Antarctica’s western Weddell Sea created by fish. The ...

How Did Shackleton Survive The Endurance Expedition? History Hit is aboard an expedition to locate one of the world’s most famous shipwrecks, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance. Trapped and eventually ...

It isn’t every day that the most famous story of human survival gets an update. But the century-old tale of the Shackleton Expedition—you know, one in which marooned sailors survived off of seal ...

"She was doomed, no ship built by human hands could have withstood the strain."When polar explorer Ernest Shackleton wrote this journal entry on October 27, 1915, his dreams of reaching Antarctica had ...