Add to ORKGNot long after Shackleton watched his ship Endurance become trapped in the ice floes of the Weddell Sea, on the other side of Antarctica the expedition’s second ship, Aurora, suffered an equally terrifying fate. Under the command of J.R. Stenhouse, the Aurora was torn from her moorings and driven out to sea, becoming trapped in pack ice. For ten months the ice sawed at her hull, until, with her rudder smashed and water cascading from her seams, she broke free and embarked upon her own extraordinary voyage to safe harbour. One hundred years on from the Endurance expedition of 1914–17, Ice Captain reveals the story of Stenhouse’s achievements aboard the Aurora, and his many adventures in later life, from serving as a U-boat hunter in the F...
This is the story of the tragic final voyage of the Karluk as told to author Ralph Hale by the ship'...
The first scientific exploration of the Antarctic dates to the end of the seventeenth century, when ...
In June 1878, the expedition ship Vega set out from the port of Karlskrona in southern Sweden. The v...
Photograph of the sailing ship Endurance trapped and crushed by ice in the Antarctic, 1915. "The lon...
In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton set sail from London for Antarctica aboard the HMS Endurance. Having l...
It is often claimed that there has never been a greater feat of seamanship than Sir Ernest Henry Sha...
This is an excerpt from Ernest Shackleton's book, "The Voyage of the James Caird". It provides a fir...
In the southern summer of 1972/73, the Glomar Challenger was the first vessel of the international D...
Captain Scott holds a unique position in human exploration in that, despite his failures, he has obt...
"In the southern summer of 1972/73, the Glomar Challenger was the first vessel of the international ...
In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton embarked on what he called 'The last great polar journey' - the crossi...
In 1911 the world was watching, waiting, hoping, attention focused on a desolate spot at the very en...
Part of the Hurley collection of photographic prints.; Published in Argonauts of the south, 1925, fa...
The 1910–1913 Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic, led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott, was a vent...
The Steam Yacht Aurora made three voyages to the Antarctic and two to the sub-Antarctic during the A...
This is the story of the tragic final voyage of the Karluk as told to author Ralph Hale by the ship'...
The first scientific exploration of the Antarctic dates to the end of the seventeenth century, when ...
In June 1878, the expedition ship Vega set out from the port of Karlskrona in southern Sweden. The v...
Photograph of the sailing ship Endurance trapped and crushed by ice in the Antarctic, 1915. "The lon...
In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton set sail from London for Antarctica aboard the HMS Endurance. Having l...
It is often claimed that there has never been a greater feat of seamanship than Sir Ernest Henry Sha...
This is an excerpt from Ernest Shackleton's book, "The Voyage of the James Caird". It provides a fir...
In the southern summer of 1972/73, the Glomar Challenger was the first vessel of the international D...
Captain Scott holds a unique position in human exploration in that, despite his failures, he has obt...
"In the southern summer of 1972/73, the Glomar Challenger was the first vessel of the international ...
In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton embarked on what he called 'The last great polar journey' - the crossi...
In 1911 the world was watching, waiting, hoping, attention focused on a desolate spot at the very en...
Part of the Hurley collection of photographic prints.; Published in Argonauts of the south, 1925, fa...
The 1910–1913 Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic, led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott, was a vent...
The Steam Yacht Aurora made three voyages to the Antarctic and two to the sub-Antarctic during the A...
This is the story of the tragic final voyage of the Karluk as told to author Ralph Hale by the ship'...
The first scientific exploration of the Antarctic dates to the end of the seventeenth century, when ...
In June 1878, the expedition ship Vega set out from the port of Karlskrona in southern Sweden. The v...