His Greenland explorations won admirers like John Franklin and William Scoresby. But Karl Ludwig Giesecke is best known for ...

Ukrainian polar researcher Yurii Lyshenko was in Antarctica when Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Upon coming back to Ukraine, he joined the Armed Forces. Yurii sustained a severe ...

British polar explorer Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton established his place in the annals of history after ensuring the survival of his entire crew following the shipwreck of Endurance in 1915. A new ...

“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 ...