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[[Image:ErnestHenryShackleton.jpg|180px|thumb|Sir Ernest Shackleton]]'''Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton''' (1874–1922) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] polar explorer who made four [[antarctica|antarctic]] expeditions. In 1909 he reached within 100 miles of the South Pole.
[[Image:ErnestHenryShackleton.jpg|200px|thumb|Sir Ernest Shackleton]]'''Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton''' (1874–1922) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] polar explorer who made four [[antarctica|antarctic]] expeditions. In 1909 he reached within 100 miles of the South Pole.
[[Image:TheEnduranceInFullSail.jpg|thumb|150px|left|The ''Endurance'' in full sail]]On his third expedition, the Endurance Expedition of 1914–16, his ship became stranded in the ice and was eventually crushed and sank. For five and a half months the crew proceeded on foot, dragging one of the ship's life-boats across the ice until they were eventually forced to take the boats and set sail for Deception Island about 200 miles away. However, diminishing rations forced them to land on Elephant Island, a desolate, uninhabited island far from any shipping routes. Knowing that their only hope of survival was to make contact with the outside world Shackleton and a handful of others then set sail for the whaling station on South Georgia in the ''James Caird'' (one of the lifeboats).
[[Image:TheEnduranceInFullSail.jpg|thumb|150px|left|The ''Endurance'' in full sail]]On his third expedition, the Endurance Expedition of 1914–16, his ship became stranded in the ice and was eventually crushed and sank. For five and a half months the crew proceeded on foot, dragging one of the ship's life-boats across the ice until they were eventually forced to take the boats and set sail for Deception Island about 200 miles away. However, diminishing rations forced them to land on Elephant Island, a desolate, uninhabited island far from any shipping routes. Knowing that their only hope of survival was to make contact with the outside world Shackleton and a handful of others then set sail for the whaling station on South Georgia in the ''James Caird'' (one of the lifeboats).
[[Image:LaunchingTheJamesCaird2.jpg|thumb|right|Launching the ''James Caird'']]
[[Image:LaunchingTheJamesCaird2.jpg|thumb|right|Launching the ''James Caird'']]