eman sir ernest shackleton

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  • Shackleton is born

    biographyon this day Sir Ernest Shackleton was born, in County Kildare, Ireland.

  • Shackleton was sent to an expedition to antarctica

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/shackleton_ernest.shtmlIn 1901, Shackleton was chosen to go on the Antarctic expedition led by British naval officer Robert Falcon Scott on the ship 'Discovery'. With Scott and one other, Shackleton trekked towards the South Pole in extremely difficult conditions, getting closer to the Pole than anyone had come before. Shackleton became seriously ill and had to return home but had gained valuable experience

  • Sir Ernest Shackleton leaves for the Arctic

    sir ernest shackleton leaves for antarcticaIn December 1914, Shackleton set sail with his 27-man crew, many of whom, it is said, had responded to the following recruitment notice: "Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages. Bitter cold. Long months of complete darkness. Constant danger. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success. —Ernest Shackleton

  • The Edurance gets stuck in ice!

    enduranceIce conditions were unusually harsh, and the wooden ship, which Shackleton had renamed Endurance became trapped in the pack ice of the Weddell Sea. For 10 months, the Endurance drifted, locked within the ice, until the pressure crushed the ship. With meager food, clothing and shelter, Shackleton and his men were stranded on the ice floes, where they camped for five months.

  • Shackleton and his crew finally touch land

    When they had drifted to the northern edge of the pack, encountering open leads of water, the men sailed the three small lifeboats,to elephant island.They were on land for the first time in 497 days!However it was uninhabited so there was no hope of rescue.

  • Shackleton saves his men with his own hands

    Recognizing the severity of the physical and mental strains on his men, Shackleton and five others immediately set out to take the crew's rescue into their own hands. In a 22-foot lifeboat named the James Caird, they accomplished the impossible, surviving a 17-day, 800-mile journey through the world's worst seas to South Georgia Island, where a whaling station was located.

  • Shackleton returns to Elephant island to save crew

    elephant islandThe six men landed on an uninhabited part of the island, however, so their last hope was to cross 26 miles of mountains and glaciers, considered impassable, to reach the whaling station on the other side. Starved, frostbitten and wearing rags, Shackleton and two others made the trek and, in August 1916, 21 months after the initial departure of the Endurance, Shackleton himself returned to rescue the men on Elephant Island. Although they'd withstood the most incredible hardship and privation, not

  • sir ernest shackletons death

    death of sir ernest shackletonon this sdaty sir ernest shackleton suffers from a heart attack and dies