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Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic Expeditions, Pt. 1

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Shackleton and the Imperial Trans Antarctic Expedition

Shackleton was knighted and awarded the royal geographic society metal. He received about 20 thousand pounds to help pay off the expedition's debts. After another quick sponsor break, the nimrod expedition returned to england in june of 19 o nine. And shackleton reunited with his wife. When he was telling her about his decision to turn back, rather than pressing on for his goal of the geographic south pole, he said, quote, better a living donkey than a dead lion.

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