Ernest Shackleton - Explore the largest ever in Antarctica?
Ernest Shackleton was born in 1874 in Kilkee, Co. Kildare, Ireland. She left school at sixteen and began an apprenticeship of four years with the expedition of the Northwest. Until 1898 he was certified as the world master the English called it the command of a vessel somewhere in the outbreak of the Boer War in 1899, proposed by the troop Tintagel Castle, Where the committee has met Cedric Llewellyn Longstaff , whose father was the Chief FinancialSupporters of the National Antarctic expedition organized at that time.
On February 17, 1901 was designated as third officer of the expedition Scott linked to the discovery of Antarctica. Scott chose to march to the south of the highest margin possible, to the south-record of 22 degrees seventeen to reach to reach. However, all dogs are killed on the road, and suffered much in men decided to return to the ship, Shackleton returned home aboard the rescue ship is due toits terrible condition. After his return to England, Shackleton took the secretary of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, in February 1907 he presented his plans, the company has conducted an expedition to conquer the South Pole
On 1 January 1908, the Nimrod left New Zealand in Antarctica, the expedition was a success, to get in 112 miles of the pole. After his return he was knighted, and discovered he had a household name. He returned toAntarctica in the Resistance in 1914 with the intention of the continent. However, resistance in the ice finally broken prisoner, the task of the profession. Sailed on three lifeboats little elephant Iceland, and from there they decided to Shackleton and five companions left in the strongest ships of the whaling station in South Georgia, Iceland. Incredibly, they managed to get there, go to the station and the installation of a lifeboat. She left her finalFollowing the mission in 1921, but died of a heart attack on South Georgia Island before reaching Antarctica.
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