Tag: Ernest Shackleton

• Tuesday, February 5th 2013 - 01:10 UTC

  A repeat of Shackleton’s epic Southern Ocean crossing reaches South Georgia

  

  An expedition replicating Ernest Shackleton's 1916 perilous crossing of the Southern Ocean from Antarctica in a small boat has made landfall after a 12-day journey. Led by renowned adventurer Tim Jarvis, the team of six reached Peggotty Bluff on rugged South Georgia, where they landed their vessel in the same place Shackleton and his men beached the James Caird nearly 100 years ago.

• Thursday, January 3rd 2013 - 05:52 UTC

  Recreation of Shackleton 1914 survival epic planned for 20 January

  

  Six British and Australian adventurers are setting off to recreate one of the greatest journeys of human survival. In 1914, Ernest Shackleton, the seasoned British explorer, set out to better Scott and Amundsen by attempting the first-ever crossing of the Antarctic.

• Wednesday, October 3rd 2012 - 21:07 UTC

  Shackleton Fund with new website; makes important Falklands’ announcements

  

  The Shackleton Scholarship Fund which is closely linked to the South Atlantic and the Falkland Islands has announced the launch of their new website: www.shackletonfund.com.

• Saturday, September 29th 2012 - 09:06 UTC

  Film to re-edit Shackleton’s odyssey and project to recover “Endurance”

  

  Bob Chartoff and Lynn Hendee of Chartoff Productions announce plans for “Ice”, an epic action-adventure feature film based on the true story of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 Endurance expedition. Shackleton’s remarkable rescue of his 27 men when their ship, the Endurance, went down in the pack ice off the Antarctic coast is internationally regarded as the greatest adventure in history.

• Tuesday, September 18th 2012 - 15:06 UTC

  Preparing to re-enact Shackleton’s epic on a replica of ‘James Caird’ next January

  

  A pair of Royal Navy and Royal Marines adventurers has completed a summer of sea trials as they prepare to take an authentic replica of Sir Ernest Shackleton's famous lifeboat back to the icy wastes of the South Pole.

• Sunday, March 25th 2012 - 10:17 UTC

  Expedition will try to recreate 1916 Shackleton epic in replica of the James Caird

  

  Two Royal Navy servicemen, Warrant Officer Barry 'Baz' Gray of the Royal Marines and Royal Naval Petty Officer Seb Coulthard will form part of a crew of Antarctic adventurers recreating Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1916 epic and extraordinary double mission.

• Monday, March 5th 2012 - 19:03 UTC

  HMS Protector returns to spot in Antarctica where Shackleton saved his men

  

  Sailors from HMS Protector have returned to the exact spot where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton saved his men nearly 100 years ago. A team form the ice survey ship carried out scientific research at Point Wild on Elephant Island - a remote and forbidding shore where Shackleton expedition party spent months awaiting rescue in 1916.

• Thursday, November 24th 2011 - 13:14 UTC

  Ninety years later epic polar explorers set to rest side by side in South Georgia

  

  “He is my other self. I love him like a brother”. Thus Ernest Shackleton spoke of Frank Wild, his friend and fellow explorer, whose ashes are soon to be laid to rest alongside Shackleton’s at the Whaler’s Graveyard in Grytviken, South Georgia, 90 years after their last great polar venture.

• Tuesday, February 15th 2011 - 10:05 UTC

  Ernest Shackleton honoured with birthday Google Doodle

  

  Ernest Shackleton the famed Antarctic explorer has had his 137th birthday celebrated with a new Google Doodle on the search engine's homepage.