University of Maine researchers traced a portion of a route in the Southern Ocean made famous by polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, whose 1914–1916 South Pole expedition aboard Endurance has been called one of the greatest survival stories of all time. Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute, led a team to recover
read more CCI collects ice cores from South Georgia, traces route of Sir Ernest Shackleton – Mayewski et al.