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Shackleton, Ernest Henry
. His ship <i>Endurance</i> left South Georgia in December 1914 for the transantarctic crossing but was crushed by the ice. Shackleton and his crew eventually reached Elephant Island, from where he and five others set out in an open boat to get help. They finally landed in South Georgia in May 1916.', copy:'(Image © Billie Love)'});)
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Irish Antarctic explorer. In 1908–09, he commanded the British Antarctic expedition that reached 88° 23' S latitude, located the magnetic South Pole, and climbed Mount Erebus. He was knighted in 1909.
Shackleton was a member of Scott's Antarctic expedition 1901–04, and also commanded the expedition 1914–16 to cross the Antarctic, when he had to abandon his ship, the Endurance, crushed in the ice of the Weddell Sea. He died on board the Quest on his fourth expedition 1921–22 to the Antarctic.
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