Episode 144 - Life on ice: Sir Ernest Shackleton and the blue plaque polar explorers
The English Heritage Podcast
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Did They Reach the South Pole?
They set off from great britain on the fifteenth of june 19 ten, which gives you an idea about just how long these things take. It was an incredibly long term and incredibly complicated endeavor. And when did they set off for the south pole? Because it's around 19 12 that fate has a role. They got their second when they got to antarctica, they discovered that rold aminson, the a norwegian explorer who had already discovered the north west passage in 19 o five,. That he was already there and poised to launch a strike at the pole.
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