Edward Shackleton collection 1932-1994

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Edward Shackleton collection 1932-1994

Expedition material (9 volumes, 28 leaves) correspondence (40 leaves) and papers (2 volumes 20 leaves)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6285263

Scott Polar Research Institute

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Shackleton, Ernest Henry, 1874-1922

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Ernest Shackleton, leader of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition and part of two other Antarctic expeditions, acquired Polaris after her owner's financial trouble. Renamed Endurance after the Shackleton family motto Fortitudine vincimus (By Endurance we Conquer), she sailed intending to accomplish the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent. She departed for her final voyage on December 15, 1914 but progress was slow, averaging about 30 miles per day through pack ice. A month later, w...

Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton

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Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton was born on 15 July 1911 in London, the son of Ernest and Emily Shackleton. While an undergraduate at Magdalen College, Oxford, he joined the Oxford University Expedition to Sarawak as surveyor in 1932, making the first ascent of Mount Mulu. After graduating, he organized the Oxford University Expedition to Ellesmere Island, 1934-1935 (leader Noel Humphreys), conducting surveys and geological work in the Bache Peninsula area with his colleague Robe...

Oxford University Expedition to Sarawak 1932

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Oxford University Expedition to Ellesmere Island 1934-1935

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Shackleton, Edward Shackleton, Baron, 1911-1994

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