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...
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Emily Shackleton (15 May 1868 – 9 June 1936), also known as Lady Shackleton, was the wife of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and the mother of...
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Grytviken (section Ernest Shackleton)
ships. Grytviken is closely associated with the explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition set out from London on...
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Wandsworth, London, Shackleton was the younger son of Emily Mary and Sir Ernest Shackleton, the Antarctic explorer. Edward Shackleton was educated at Radley...
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Endurance (1912 ship) (section Shackleton purchase)
Endurance was the three-masted barquentine in which Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men sailed for the Antarctic on the 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic...
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the failure of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton, in its attempt to cross the Antarctic continent in 1914. The book...
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Laura Bassi (icebreaker) (redirect from RRS Ernest Shackleton)
Laura Bassi (formerly Polar Queen and RRS Ernest Shackleton) is an icebreaking research vessel operated by the Italian National Institute for Oceanography...
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which Sir Ernest Shackleton used in his Antarctic expedition of 1914–1917. The names of Endurance's boats and landing craft continued the Shackleton connection:...
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and starring Kenneth Branagh as explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. The film tells the true story of Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic expedition on the ship Endurance...
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crater is named after Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton. The rotational axis of the Moon passes through Shackleton, near the rim. The crater is 21 km (13...
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Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (redirect from Shackleton's Expedition)
expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Conceived by Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition was an attempt to make the first land crossing of...
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up Shackleton in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ernest Shackleton (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish polar explorer. Shackleton or...
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The Shackleton–Rowett Expedition (1921–22) was Sir Ernest Shackleton's last Antarctic project, and the final episode in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration...
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Farthest South (section Ernest Shackleton)
rivalry between Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Shackleton's efforts fell short; Scott reached the...
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Kathleen Shackleton MBE (5 February 1884 – 10 July 1961) was an Irish portrait painter and journalist. Kathleen Shackleton was born in Dublin on 5 February...
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named Shackleton in service, after the polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. It entered operational service with the RAF in April 1951. The Shackleton was...
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Islands through the Southern Ocean to South Georgia, undertaken by Sir Ernest Shackleton and five companions to obtain rescue for the main body of the stranded...
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South: Sir Ernest Shackleton's Glorious Epic of the Antarctic is a 1919 silent film documentary of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance Imperial Trans-Antarctic...
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Fiona Sara Shackleton, Baroness Shackleton of Belgravia, LVO (née Charkham; born 26 May 1956) is an English solicitor and Conservative politician, who...
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Nimrod Expedition (category Ernest Shackleton)
Expedition, was the first of three expeditions to the Antarctic led by Ernest Shackleton and his second time to the Continent. Its main target, among a range...
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distinguished field geologist Robert Millner Shackleton and great-nephew of the explorer Ernest Shackleton. Educated at Cranbrook School, Kent (thanks...
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best known for his book Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (1959), an account of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic explorations. Lansing was a...
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Quest (ship) (category Ernest Shackleton)
exploration vessel of the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition of 1921–1922. It was aboard this vessel that Sir Ernest Shackleton died on 5 January 1922 while...
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Tim Jarvis (section Shackleton journey)
period recreations of historical treks by Sir Douglas Mawson and Sir Ernest Shackleton. Timothy John Jarvis was born on 7 May 1966 in Manchester, England...
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Antarctica, where the explorer Ernest Shackleton built a hut that housed his party during the winter of 1908. When Shackleton went into McMurdo Sound in 1908...
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Crean's third and final Antarctic venture was as second officer on Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. After the ship Endurance became...
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interior of the continent. British explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton were the first to reach the magnetic South Pole in 1909, and the geographic...
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the end of the 19th century, and ended after the First World War; the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition of 1921–1922 is often cited by historians as the dividing...
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Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Sir Ernest Shackleton, British Antarctic explorer. The Shackleton Glacier originates in the East Antarctic Ice...
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Arctic and Antarctic explorers, such as Captain Robert Bartlett, Ernest Shackleton, Richard E. Byrd, Fridtjof Nansen, Robert Falcon Scott, George W....
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