Ernest Shackleton - Irish Antarctic explorer
Ernest Shackleton died on this day, January 5, 1922, aged just 47. The County Kildare man died having become one of Ireland's best-known explorers of the Polar Regions.
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Ernest Shackleton died on this day, January 5, 1922, aged just 47. The County Kildare man died having become one of Ireland's best-known explorers of the Polar Regions.
Desperate to conquer the frozen frontier, Ernest Shackleton (1874–1922) undertook four dangerous journeys to Antarctica, including his famous failure-turned-successful survival mission on the Endurance. One hundred years after his death, Rhiannon Davies spoke to polar explorer and biographer Sir Ranulph Fiennes about Shackleton’s incredible life…
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