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Person1874 – 1922
Ernest Shackleton
Irish-born British Antarctic explorer who, after the Endurance was crushed by the ice in 1915, brought all 28 of his men home alive
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Shackleton’s Endurance, setting out to cross Antarctica on foot, was trapped and crushed by the ice of the Weddell Sea. After a year and a half on the ice and in small boats, all 28 men came home alive.
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- Antarctic Exploration1773 – 2014
From Cook crossing the Antarctic Circle in 1773 to the first sightings of the continent, Ross’s wall of ice, the race to the pole between Amundsen and Scott, Shackleton’s Endurance, the Antarctic Treaty and the ozone hole — two centuries of reaching for the frozen continent