Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition, 1921-1922 1919-1923

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Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition, 1921-1922 1919-1923

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Correspondence (322 leaves) Papers (321 leaves and 5 volumes) ships Logs (2 volumes)

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Scott Polar Research Institute

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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...

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Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition 1921-1922

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Macklin Alexander Hepburne

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