Shackleton, Ernest Henry Sir, 1874-1922. Signature [manuscript]. - View Resource

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Shackleton, Ernest Henry Sir, 1874-1922. Signature [manuscript].

Title

Signature [manuscript]. 1909 Apr. 19.

Resource Link

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/222895000

Abstract

Signature of Ernest Shackleton on a menu card for dinner on board the S. S. Riverina, 19th April, 1909.

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0.1 cm.

Holding Repository

Libraries Australia

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SNAC Resource ID: 7037335

Libraries Australia

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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...

Riverina (Ship)

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