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Episode 144 - Life on ice: Sir Ernest Shackleton and the blue plaque polar explorers

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Shackleton's Life and Achievements

Shackleton was born in 18 74, so he's a little bit young than scott. But they actually had experience of each other, didn't they? Well, yes, that's right. They went on the national antarctica expedition 19 o one, four. And shackleton acually was as sort of under scott, who was a subordinate on that expedition. So it was an incredibly ambitious thing to do. That's his career in a nutshell. What were his achievements then, would you say? Probably what he's best known for is getting the entire crew of endurance off when it got wedged in in pack ice o. The navigational feat of finding south south

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