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- The crew escaped by camping on the sea ice until it disintegrated, then by launching the lifeboats to reach Elephant Island and ultimately the South Atlantic island of South Georgia, enduring a stormy ocean voyage of 720 nautical miles (1,330 km; 830 mi) in Shackleton's most famous exploit.
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1 day ago · Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton CVO OBE FRGS FRSGS (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
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May 14, 2024 · Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874 – 1922) was an Irish explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic over one hundred years ago. He is one of the most influential figures in the Heroic Age of the Antarctic Expedition, which began at the end of the 19th century and ended after World War I.
May 5, 2024 · In August 1914, Ernest Shackleton and his crew set sail aboard the Endurance, embarking on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
1 day ago · A memorial to polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton will travel more than 7,000 thousand miles to Dundee to commemorate the 150th anniversary of his birth. The wooden cross from Shackleton’s Hope ...
Apr 23, 2024 · An investigative team is determined to locate the remains of explorer Ernest Shackleton's Endurance shipwreck—but plummeting temperates, missing AUVs and an extreme ice threat stands in their...
May 2, 2024 · Roald Amundsen (born July 16, 1872, Borge, near Oslo, Norway—died June 18, 1928?, Arctic Ocean) was a Norwegian explorer who was the first to reach the South Pole, the first to make a ship voyage through the Northwest Passage, and one of the first to cross the Arctic by air. He was one of the greatest figures in the field of polar exploration.
6 days ago · 1. Where and when was Ernest Shackleton born? Hint. Derbyshire, England on December 15, 1884. London, England on January 26, 1880. Auckland, New Zealand on September 11, 1890. County Kildare, Ireland on February 15, 1874.
