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Shackleton’s personal account of the doomed ship, Endurance. This record also credits the support party aboard the Aurora, who managed to drop off supplies on the other side of the continent despite temperatures of -50 degrees and 80mph winds.
Ernest Henry Shackleton CVO OBE FRGS FRSGS was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
Antarctica — Discovery and exploration — British, Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917, Scientific expeditions — Antarctica
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