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Apr 20, 2000 · One of the greatest adventure stories of our times.' New York Times Book Review. In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men set sail for the South Atlantic on board a ship called the Endurance. The object of the expedition was to cross the Antarctic overland.
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Mar 18, 2022 · Antarctica. Geopolitics. Ernest Shackleton. WWI. Polar exploration. Weddell Sea. It’s undoubtedly exciting news, but polar exploration has a poor record when it comes to diversity and we need to ...
Dec 21, 2001 · The Endurance: Directed by George Butler. With Liam Neeson, Julian Ayer, John Blackborow, David Cale. In December, 1914, the Endurance encountered ice packs before reaching 60º South - 400 miles north of Antarctica; an omen.
Sir Ernest Shackleton was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer, who made three expeditions to the continent, most famously in 1914 on the Endurance. He was born in southern Ireland, but grew up in London. He joined the merchant navy when he was 16 and worked on many different ships. Shackleton was a ...
Nov 3, 1998 · 143 reviews 134 followers. July 2, 2014. The Endurance is a short, quickly-paced book about Ernest Shackleton’s failed expedition to cross the Antarctic. The book was originally intended as a companion volume to the American Museum of Natural History’s 2011-12 exhibition, but can be read and enjoyed on its own.
Feb 14, 2022 · The name stuck. When Chippy McNish was chosen to be part of the crew on Shackleton’s Endurance, Mrs. Chippy came along too. A ship’s cat, Mrs. Chippy was tasked with both catching mice and rats and being a source of company for the whole crew. After a month at sea, it was learned that the robust tabby cat was in fact ‘not a lady, but a ...
‘Exploring Shackleton’s Antarctica’ The aim of the module is to develop an enquiry on the Polar region of Antarctica focusing on Shackleton’s 1914–17 Endurance Expedition. This sequence of lesson plans will demonstrate geographical based, hands-on, cross-curricular activities such as role play to nurture pupils’ fascination with and ...
