Which British explorer's journey still captures your imagination the most?

After his ship was crushed by pack ice in 1915, Shackleton led every one of his men to safety across hundreds of miles of frozen sea. A masterclass in leadership under pressure.

Cook's three voyages mapped vast stretches of the Pacific, from New Zealand to Hawaii, transforming European understanding of the globe, though not without lasting consequences for those he encountered.

Scott reached the Pole in 1912 only to find Amundsen had beaten him. His doomed return journey, recorded in haunting diary entries, became a defining tale of British endurance.

In the 1890s, Kingsley travelled solo through what is now Gabon and Cameroon, canoeing rivers and challenging the prejudices of her age along the way.

Drake's 1577-1580 voyage aboard the Golden Hind made him a hero to Elizabeth I and a pirate to Spain. Few figures embody the swashbuckling Tudor age more completely.