Shackleton died aboard the Quest at the age of 47 in 1922 while the vessel was anchored off South Georgia Island, enroute to what would have been the famed explorer’s fourth expedition to the ...

The wreck of the ship used for Sir Ernest Shackleton's final Antarctic expedition has been located by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS) off the coast of Labrador. The Quest, aboard ...

“Finding Quest is one of the final chapters in the extraordinary story of Sir Ernest Shackleton,” said John Geiger, expedition leader. Maps and ship documents from the time of the wreck, which ...

September 17, 1921: Ernest Shackleton (1874 - 1922) leaves London on the converted Norwegian sealer 'Quest' on his final voyage to the Antarctic with the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition. He died of a ...

“Finding Quest is one of the final chapters in the extraordinary story of Sir Ernest Shackleton,” said John Geiger, expedition leader for the search and CEO of the society, in a news release.

"Shackleton was known for his courage and brilliance as a leader in times of crisis." Sir Ernest Shackleton aboard Quest leaving St. Katharine Docks, London on the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition.

Ernest Shackleton was sailing for Antarctica on the ship, called the Quest, when he died in 1922. Researchers exulted over the discovery of its wreckage, 62 years after it sank in the Labrador Sea.

1. “Endurance” chronicles Ernest Shackleton’s failed imperial trans-Antarctic expedition, the first attempt to traverse the Antarctic continent. The expedition, launched in 1914, was cut ...

ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland — The wreck of the last ship belonging to Sir Ernest Shackleton, a famous Irish-born British explorer of Antarctica, has been found off the coast of Labrador in Canada ...

“Finding Quest is one of the final chapters in the extraordinary story of Sir Ernest Shackleton,” said John Geiger, expedition leader for the search and CEO of the society, in a news release.

Ernest Shackleton was sailing for Antarctica on the ship, called the Quest, when he died in 1922. Researchers exulted over the discovery of its wreckage, 62 years after it sank in the Labrador Sea.

Originally, Shackleton had intended to use Quest for a Canadian Arctic expedition, but he was unable to get the approval of Canada’s prime minister at the time. His death marked the end of what ...