SHACKLETON MEDAL 2024 - The Shortlist

Following a very lively debate at the Royal Geographical Society, chaired by Sunday Times bestselling author Lewis Dartnell, our panel of judges has decided on the shortlist for this year’s Shackle...

Searching for Polar Bears with Levison Wood

Levison Wood first seized the attention of millions when he walked the length of the Nile ten years ago. As the renowned explorer, photographer and writer joins the judging panel for the Shackleton...

SHACKLETON MEDAL 2024: THE LONGLIST

Once more, the longlist for the 2024 Shackleton Medal for the Protection of the Polar Regions reveals the extraordinary range of people working in the Arctic and Antarctic today. It includes scient...

Shackleton Medal Judge Pirita Näkkäläjärvi on the Sámi Greta Thunberg

Shackleton Medal judge Pirita Näkkäläjärvi is the recently elected President of the Sámi Parliament in Finland. Here she talks to Rachel Halliburton about strong Sámi women, the importance of the o...

John Geiger: The Third Man Factor And The Shackleton Medal

John Geiger is Chief Executive of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS) and the internationally bestselling author of seven books, including The Third Man Factor. As he joins the judging p...

Sir Ranulph Fiennes on Courage, Leadership and the link between Shackleton and Lawrence of Arabia

Sir Ranulph Fiennes has been an honorary judge for the Shackleton Medal for the Protection of the Polar Regions since it was established in 2022. A long-term admirer of Shackleton, he talks to Rach...

2023 SHACKLETON MEDAL FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE POLAR REGIONS // THE LONGLIST

Shackleton is thrilled to confirm the longlist of nominees for the second Shackleton Medal for the Protection of the Polar Regions. There can only be one winner, but every one of our fifty-one entr...

SHACKLETON MEDAL // THE CHAIR OF JUDGES LEWIS DARTNELL

Ahead of the judging for the 2023 Shackleton Medal for the Protection of the Polar Regions, Rachel Halliburton sat down to interview the Chair of Judges, Lewis Dartnell. THE CHANGING WORLD  In Le...

SHACKLETON MEDAL // MEET DAN SNOW

Historian Dan Snow has a lifelong fascination with Ernest Shackleton which makes him aptly placed to take up a position on the judging panel for the 2023 Shackleton Medal for the Protection of the ...

SHACKLETON MEDAL // MEET KLAUS DODDS

Klaus Dodds, Executive Dean for the School of Life Sciences and the Environment at the Royal Holloway, has been a judge for the Shackleton medal for the last two years. Here he talks to Rachel Hall...