Ernest Shackleton - the largest ever Antarctic Explorer?

Ernest Shackleton was born in 1874 in Kilkee, Co. Kildare, Ireland. He left school at sixteen, and began an apprenticeship of four years with the company on the Northwest. In 1898 he was certified as a Master Mariner in the world, with reservations, for which he received an order from a British ship worldwide. After the outbreak of the Boer War in 1899, the company moved to share Tintagel Castle, where he met aboard Cedric Llewellyn Longstaff, whose father was the most important financialSupporters of national Antarctic expedition organized at this time.

On February 17, 1901 was designated as a third official trip Scott linked to the discovery of Antarctica. Scott chose to march south to the maximum width of a peak in the south, eighty degrees was reached 17-2. However, all dogs are killed on the road, and men have suffered, they decided, after his return, Shackleton returned home aboard the rescue ship is due toits terrible condition. After his return to England, Shackleton took the head of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society Secretary in February 1907, presented his plans, the company conducted an expedition to conquer the South Pole

January 1, 1908 Nimrod left New Zealand for the Antarctic expedition was able to get in 112 miles of the pole. After his return he was knighted, and discovered he had a famous name. He returned toAntarctica in 1914, on resistance, with the intention of the whole continent. However, the Endurance became trapped in ice and was eventually defeated, the abandonment of the profession. They sailed on three lifeboats small elephant in Iceland, where Shackleton chose five friends inside and outside the larger ships of the whaling station on South Georgia, Iceland together. Surprisingly, they left, go to the station and collection point for a rescue ship. He left his finalResearch Expedition in 1921, but died of a heart attack in South Georgia before coming to Iceland to Antarctica.

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