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  1. Jun 11, 2021 · Learn about the intrepid explorer who led numerous expeditions to the uncharted Antarctic.

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  2. May 18, 2020 · Born in Kildare, Ernest Shackleton made 3 expeditions to Antarctica where he climbed an active volcano, survived the sinking of his ship and camped for 3 mon...

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  3. To license this clip go to http://www.natgeomotion.com/bell/clip/447N01W_112.do Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew took bitter defeat and turned it into hero...

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  4. This is Ernest Shackleton. He was an explorer and sailor. He was born in Ireland in 1874 and he joined the Merchant Navy at 16. He wanted to see places people had never been to before. He went on ...

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    Shackleton was born on 15 February 1874, in Kilkea, County Kildare, Ireland. His father, Henry Shackleton, tried to enter the British Army, but his poor health prevented him from doing so. He became a farmer instead, settling in Kilkea. Shackleton's mother, Henrietta Letitia Sophia Gavan, was descended from the Fitzmaurice family. Ernest was the se...

    Shackleton's restlessness at school was such that he was allowed to leave at 16 and go to sea. The options available were a Royal Navy cadetship at Britannia, which Shackleton could not afford; the mercantile marine cadet ships Worcester and Conway; or an apprenticeship "before the mast" on a sailing vessel. The third option was chosen. His father ...

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    Before the return of Shackleton's body to South Georgia, there was a memorial service held for him with full military honours at Holy Trinity Church, Montevideo, and on 2 March a service was held at St Paul's Cathedral, London, at which the King and other members of the royal family were represented. Within a year the first biography, The Life of Sir Ernest Shackleton, by Hugh Robert Mill, was published. This book, as well as being a tribute to the explorer, was a practical effort to assist h...

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    In 1959, Alfred Lansing's Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage was published. This was the first of a number of books about Shackleton that began to appear, showing him in a highly positive light. At the same time, attitudes towards Scott were gradually changing as a more critical note was sounded in the literature, culminating in Roland Huntford's 1979 treatment of him in his dual biography Scott and Amundsen, described by Barczewski as a "devastating attack". This negative picture of S...

    In Spanish: Ernest Shackleton para niños 1. Aurora Australis, the first book produced in Antarctica, during the NimrodExpedition 2. Avro Shackleton, British long-range maritime patrol aircraft used by the Royal Air Force, named after him 3. RRS Ernest Shackleton, a research ship formerly operated by the British Antarctic Survey 4. Shackleton crater...

  5. Ernest Henry Shackleton was an explorer who traveled to Antarctica . He is known for his adventures during several attempts to reach the South Pole .

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  7. The third time Sir Ernest Shackleton left England for Antarctica was in the year 1914 on the British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Being the leader of his crew, he instructed his crewmates to cross Antarctica from a base on the Weddell Sea to McMurdo Sound, via the South Pole. But things didn’t turn out so great for him even from the ...

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