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    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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    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. The young Edward Shackleton was educated...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    related to Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. The couple have two daughters. Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton James Stewart Marilyn Stowe Jane...
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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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    ventured partway to Antarctica with the Nimrod Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton. Buckley was born on 25 October 1866 at his parents' homestead, Casteron...
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    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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  • distinguished field geologist Robert Millner Shackleton and great-nephew of the explorer Ernest Shackleton. Educated at Cranbrook School, Kent (thanks...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • The Shackleton–Rowett Expedition, 1921–22, was the last Antarctic expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton. Proposed as an ambitious two-year programme...
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  • Endurance is a 2000 documentary film directed by George Butler about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition in 1914. It is based on the book of...
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    served under both Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton. As a member of the Ross Sea party in Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, Joyce...
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