A remarkable hand-drawn map of Antarctica by Ernest Shackleton that he used for his lecture tours is set to sell at auction for £70,000. The famous British explorer traced on the 5ft by 3ft map the ...

The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. Explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, ...

Follow the path of the 1999 expedition aboard the Akademik Shuleykin as they revisited the remote locales of Shackleton's epic journey. The 1999 route is marked as a dashed line in green; Shackleton's ...

British Antarctic Survey’s detailed map of the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia featuring the epic “Shackleton Crossing” has won an award at the 2018 British Cartography Society Awards. The map, ...

Ernest Shackleton was a master of small group leadership in a crisis. Here he and his men play soccer on the floe whilst waiting for the ice to break up around the 'Endurance', 1915, during the ...

Shackleton planned to be the first person to cross Antarctica. He was headed for the area of Coats Land (in the Weddell Sea) when his ship got stuck in pack ice. In Shackleton's original plan, once he ...

Shackleton Whisky has created an interactive map of Britain designed to help the public find digital detox areas in nature. The premium whisky from Whyte & Mackay is looking to place its self at the ...