Exploration

A Map Drawn by Ernest Shackleton

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2015/01/14/history_of_arctic_exploration_sir_ernest_shackleton_imperial_trans_antarctic.html

10 years ago

Did Marco Polo Discover Alaska?

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/did-marco-polo-discover-america-180952765/?no-ist

10 years ago

One of the Ships from Franklin Lost Expedition Has Been Found

One of the ships from John Franklin's infamous lost expedition has been found! This 19th century expedition was one of…

10 years ago

Discovery of Machu Picchu

It was on this day in 1911 that Michu Picchu, a lost mountain city of the Incas, was rediscovered by…

10 years ago

Ship Trapped in Antarctic Ice

Over the past few days the MV Akademik Shokalskiy, a Russian ship filled with almost 70 scientists, tourists and crew, has been…

11 years ago

Scott’s Antarctic Dog

Captain Robert Scott took a gramophone on his expedition to the south pole. Here is one of the dogs, named…

11 years ago

Summiting Everest – 60 Years Ago Today

It was 60 years ago today, at 11:30 am on May 29, 1953, that climbers Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay set foot…

11 years ago

Shackleton’s Ad – Men Wanted for Hazardous Journey

Many of you have probably seen the famous advertisement which, as the story goes, Ernest Shackleton ran in the newspaper…

12 years ago

Mutiny on the Bounty – 224 Years Ago Today

244 years ago today the most famous mutiny in maritime history was committed, sailors led by Fletcher Christian taking over…

12 years ago

Ernest Shackleton – Last Expedition

World War I When Shackleton and his men returned to England, they found that the world had fundamentally changed. When…

12 years ago