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Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton | Anglo-Irish explorer | Britannica.com  Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, (born February 15, 1874, Kilkea, County Kildare, ... In January 1908 he returned to Antarctica as leader of the British Antarctic ... to South Georgia in a whale boat and then made the first crossing of the island, to seek aid. ... Escape from Antarctica Presentation of the expedition to this continent.
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Shackleton - Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance expedition ...  ... Hand Bags / Purses  Backpacks / Other Bags  Slippers  Animal print shoes and boots ... Ernest Shackleton's Trans-Antarctica expedition of 1914 - 1917 is one of the .... ice if caught in the Weddell Sea as it froze, unable to reach the continent first. ... Endurance, The Greatest Adventure Story Ever Told, book ... 1908 - 1910
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Aurora Australis - Mentions in Books and Magazines  Antarctica's First Published Book on Display; Ernest Shackleton Printed Rare ... Printed, illustrated and bound by the Shackleton expedition 1908-1909 in the depth of an ... of the First State of the First Book Published on the Antarctic Continent.
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Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton facts, information, pictures ...  Get information, facts, and pictures about Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton at ... The Nimrod, a small whaler, reached the Ross Shelf Ice in January 1908. ... in the ice, Shackleton led heroic sledge and boat parties first to Elephant Island (reached April ... Books dealing with his polar exploits include Frank Wild, Shackleton's Last...
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Ernest Shackleton - Wikipedia  Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton CVO OBE FRGS was a polar explorer who led three British ... His first experience of the polar regions was as third officer on Captain ..... On 1 January 1908, Nimrod sailed for the Antarctic from Lyttelton Harbour, New .... a team of six, led by Shackleton, would begin the crossing of the continent.
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Sir Vivian Fuchs | Adventure Network International  First crossing of the Antarctic via the South Pole. Sir Vivian Fuchs (1908 - 1999). In 1958 Sir Vivian Fuchs made history when he successfully completed the first ... and envisioned the use of Sno-Cat tractors to cross the continent in 100 days, ... The main Expedition party arrived back at Shackleton Base in January 1957.
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History of Antarctica - Wikipedia  For the natural history of the Antarctic continent, see Antarctica. The history of Antarctica ... In 1820, several expeditions claimed to have been the first to have sighted the ... a British expedition was captained by Edward Bransfield and an American ... Francis Drake like Spanish explorers before him had speculated that there...
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Shackleton_South - Ibiblio  To make this HTML ebook as easy to use as possible the table of contents and the .... The first crossing of the Antarctic continent, from sea to sea via the Pole, ..... they made had induced me to take the deck-load of coal, for if we had to fight our ... These men could proceed to lay out depots by man-haulage and make short...
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First voyage of James Cook - Wikipedia  The first voyage of James Cook was a combined Royal Navy and Royal Society expedition to the south Pacific Ocean aboard HMS Endeavour, from 1768 to 1771. It was the first of three Pacific voyages of which Cook was the commander. The aims of this first expedition were to observe the 1769 transit of Venus ... Cook then set sail into the largely uncharted ocean to the south, stopping at...
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History of Antarctica - Wikipedia  For the natural history of the Antarctic continent, see Antarctica. The history of Antarctica ... In 1820, several expeditions claimed to have been the first to have sighted the ... and sailors began to assume the existence of another, temperate continent to the ... James Cook was aware of la Roch's discovery when surveying and...
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Shackleton's Forgotten Men - The New York Times  Now, two decades later, Captain Ross drove the oak hulls of his ships ... In that long sail against the face of the ice, however, only a brief glimpse of .... beginning of the journey, when the blizzards left deep snow that stuck to their .... Comrades in adversity during the stress and peril of the first ice shelf expedition, Scott and...
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Antarctic Explorers: Charles Wilkes - South-Pole.com  The United States Exploring Expedition of 1838-42 is a milestone in ... Thus, Wilkes was the first to provide proof of the existence of an Antarctic continent. ... 1838, and landed on the Adlie Coast, on the other side of Antarctica, in January 1840. ... During the early 1800's American sealing and whaling ships were reaping...
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Antarctica facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  A belt of pack ice surrounds the continent; only a few areas are ice-free at the end of ... Life that depends completely on the land is limited to microscopic life in ... as he circumnavigated the world, but he was the first to cross the Antarctic Circle. ... C. A. Larsen began whaling at South Georgia island in 19045, and the seas of...
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Antarctica: History of Exploration - Infoplease  Davis made the first landing on the antarctic continent (Feb. ... In 1840 Lt. Charles Wilkes, leader of the U.S. Exploring Expedition to the Pacific (183842), ... Two other expeditions explored E Antarctica during the early 20th cent. ... In 192930 three other expeditions were also using aircraft for short flights over the coast.
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Robert Falcon Scott & Roald Amundsen's Race to the South Pole 1911  To get to the South Pole, Amundsen and Scott would have to travel roughly the distance ... Amundsen started his journey on 19 October 1911, setting off with five men, four ... He was pioneering a new route and did not know if he would find a way .... flag was flown at the South Pole on 18 January 1912 by Edward Wilson.
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Roald Amundsen from 1903 to 1906  Better known as the first man to reach the South Pole, the Norwegian also ... As he wrote in his Northwest Passage book's introduction: It is in the service of ... past the eastern side of King William Island, through Rae Strait, to the safety of a small ... For almost two years, Gja Haven was their home [see map of their activities...
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Naval History Blog  Blog Archive  First American Sighting of ...  Jan 19, 2012 ... On January 19th, 1840, Lt. Charles Wilkes, during an expedition ..... advanced by Wilkes that he was the first to sight the Antarctic Continent.
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Matthew Maury - Famous Ocean Explorers on Sea and Sky  Image of Matthew Maury ... Published the first extensive book about oceanography. ... book, The Physical Geography of the Sea, which was published in 1855.
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Antarctic Explorers: Charles Wilkes - South-Pole.com  Wilkes sighted land on several occasions as he sailed along the edge of the ... Thus, Wilkes was the first to provide proof of the existence of an Antarctic continent. ... landed on the Adlie Coast, on the other side of Antarctica, in January 1840.
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South Pole - Wikipedia  The first men to reach the Geographic South Pole were the Norwegian Roald Amundsen and his party on December 14, 1911. Amundsen named his camp...
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History of Antarctica - Wikipedia  For the natural history of the Antarctic continent, see Antarctica. The history of Antarctica ... Norwegian Roald Amundsen finally reached the Pole on December 14, 1911, .... in 1831, explorers and scientists began looking for the South Magnetic Pole. .... Many other geographical features were discovered, mapped and named.