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Ernest Shackleton

Grytviken, where a polar hero’s remains rest amid an ecosystem in recovery

Magazine

Grytviken, where a polar hero’s remains rest amid an ecosystem in recovery

By Toni Younghusband

Solving a 1922 miners’ strike mystery hinges on a ‘bulldog’ with a metal detector on Joburg’s Grassy Knoll

South Africa

Solving a 1922 miners’ strike mystery hinges on a ‘bulldog’ with a metal detector on Joburg’s Grassy Knoll

By Shaun Smillie

Perhaps what we fear in solitude is merely solitude itself

South Africa

Perhaps what we fear in solitude is merely solitude itself

By Don Pinnock

A hundred years on, Robert Falcon Scott still lives, still a hero

World

A hundred years on, Robert Falcon Scott still lives, still a hero

By J Brooks Spector

Shackleton - still the greatest after all these years

Sci-Tech

Shackleton - still the greatest after all these years

By Richard Poplak

Amundsen, Scott, Shackleton: gentlemen adventurers of Antarctic

Sci-Tech

Amundsen, Scott, Shackleton: gentlemen adventurers of Antarctic

By J Brooks Spector