Monday 14 October 2024 The wooden cross that was erected in South Georgia in May 1922 by the men of the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition has gone on permanent display at Discovery Point, Dundee. The cross topped the cairn built as a memorial to their late leader Ernest Shackleton, at Hope Point, the entrance to King Edward…

Shackleton Museum Autumn School : 8-10 November 2024, Athy, Ireland During the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition of 1921-1922, George Hubert Wilkins made a series of colour photographs, or autochromes.  These images depict Quest, landscapes of South Georgia and its whaling stations, and the Shackleton memorial cairn at Grytviken with the “Hope Cross” on the day of its…

The wreck of RYS Quest, the historic vessel of the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition of 1921-1922, has been found in the Labrador Sea off the coast of Newfoundland, near to its recorded sinking location. On Sunday 9 June 2024, Quest was found lying reasonably intact at a depth of just less than 400 metres, by a mission…