biography
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Shackleton, Sir Ernest Henry
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| (1874–1922)
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| biography:
| Explorer, born in Kilkea, Co Kildare, E Ireland. He was a junior officer in Scott's National Antarctic Expedition (1901–3), and nearly reached the South Pole in his own expedition of 1909. In 1915 his ship Endurance was crushed in the ice, and he and five others made a perilous journey of 1300 km/800 mi to bring relief for the crew. Knighted in 1909, he died at South Georgia during a fourth expedition. |
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