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Created by dipity on Aug 31, 2009
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At an altitude of almost two miles, with bitterly cold conditions and high winds, the Antarctic plateau is the most inhospitable place on the entire planet. One hundred years ago, Sir Ernest Shackleton reached the plateau but narrowly failed to become the first man to reach the South Pole.
A crate of Scotish whisky that was trapped in Antarctic ice for more than a century, has finally been opened in New Zealand. It was found earlier this year beneath the floor of a hut built by explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton during his 1908 expedition. The eleven bottles of McKinlay's whisky were wrapped in paper and straw for protection. However, the heritage dram won't be tasted as it's being preserved for posterity.
Exactly 100 years ago, this tribute to the great Polar explorer Ernest Shackleton was tearing up the Billboard Hot 100. www.archive.org
This is one of the more prized Edison Amberol cylinders in my collection. The great explorer Ernest Shackleton on March 30, 1909 recorded his only cylinder recording entitled "My South Polar Expedition". I searched for years before finding an example of this historically important recording. Examples of the recording have reached in excess of six thousand dollars at auction and of the relative few that were pressed only a fraction of that have survived in good playing condition. Sadly, many of the Edison Amberol wax cylinders are reaching their life expectancy and many today are found cracked or otherwise unplayable. Being a history buff I have the absolute highest respect for Ernest Shackleton as he lead his men on the most perilous of expeditions to reach the South Pole. There's not enough room here to write of my appreciation for the man and his incredible compassion for his men. NOTE OF INTEREST: At the conclusion of the recording there is a pause and then you hear Shackleton saying "All Right?" to the recording engineer. The phonograph is one of my Edison Fireside Phonographs with an oak cygnet horn. I hope you enjoy this rare recording and thanks for stopping in.
Sophie Jovillard lit un extrait de L'Odyssée de l'Endurance de Ernest Shackleton
His excellency the Commissioner for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands visited the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia in January 2010. During his visit he handed over the benches commissioned by the South Georgia Associaiton to the Museum, opened a photography exhibition at the Museum, and attended a toast at the graveside of the explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. This video is attached to the monthly South Georgia website newsletter at www.sgisland.gs
Ernest Shackleton Trans-Antarctica expedition of 1914. Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914 voyage to the Antarctic. Just one day's sail from the continent, the ship Endurance became trapped in sea ice. Frozen fast for ten months, the ship was crushed and destroyed by ice pressure, and the crew was forced to abandon ship. After camping on the ice for five months, Shackleton made two open boat journeys, one of which—a treacherous 800-mile ocean crossing to South Georgia Island—is now considered one of the greatest boat journeys in history. Trekking across the mountains of South Georgia, Shackleton reached the island's remote whaling station, organized a rescue team, and saved all of the men he had left behind. Εξερευνητική εκστρατεία στην Ανταρκτική . Μια αληθινή και απίστευτη ιστορία ανδρείας , αποφασιστικότητας , θάρρους και κουράγιου που ξεπερνάει κάθε άλλη γνωστή περιπέτεια των εξερευνητικών αποστολών . Περιληπτικά : Η ιστορία διαδραματίστηκε μέσα στον ο σφοδρότερο χειμώνα που είχε ως τότε η γη το 1914-7 στο νότιο πόλο όταν το πλοίο Endurance [ Καρτερία] του εξερευνητή Sr Ernest Shackleton εγκλωβίστηκε και καταστράφηκε από τους πάγους στο νησί Elephant . Αφού έμειναν αποκλεισμένοι μέσα σ αυτή την παγωμένη έρημο ενάμιση χρόνο ο Shackleton παίρνει μια από τις μεγαλύτερες και ποιο τολμηρές αποφάσεις της ζωής του. με μια σωσίβια λέμβο έξη μέτρων και πέντε άντρες να προσπαθήσει να βρει βοήθεια . Μετά από τρεις εβδομάδες σκληρού αγώνα στα άγρια και παγωμένα νερά του ωκεανού ...
Split Knuckle Theatre presents ENDURANCE. Antarctica, 1914: Trapped with no hope of rescue, the great British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton keeps 27 men alive for two years against all odds. Hartford, present: In the worst economic meltdown since the Great Depression, insurance man Walter Spivey struggles to save his employee's jobs and keep his company afloat. Two survival stories collide in this imaginative ensemble piece. In Split Knuckle's inventive and surprising adventure, desks become ship decks and four actors become dozens of characters in a story that spans 95 years and 8000 miles.
visit www.martydukes.com to follow me to Antarctica. Sir Ernest Shackleton can be considered one of the greatest leaders and explorers of his time. This letter to Becky tells about his unsuccessful expedition to cross Antarctica. Shackleton and his crew were marooned in the middle of the sea for 18 months and then on Elephant Island for many more. Shackleton rescued the crew by navigating the frozen weddell sea in a life boat. Everyone survived this expedition.
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By Michael J. Ybarra In 1953, Austrian mountaineer Herman Buhl became the first person to climb Nanga Parbat in the Himalayas?at 26,660 feet, the ninth tallest peak in the world. He climbed by himself and not far from the summit was forced to spend
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Wall Street Journal
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...on to us. I get embarrassed when: People do not laugh at my jokes. My idea of happiness: Christmas with family. My hero: Sir Ernest Shackleton. He saved all of his men after a disastrous expedition in Antarctica. His motto was "By Endurance We Conquer." A...
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NorthJersey.com
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...find something interesting. Along the way, we can applaud the fortitude of the classic characters of cold, such as explorers Ernest Shackleton, Robert Falcon Scott, and Apsley Cherry-Garrard, who wrote the wonderful book "The Worst Journey in the World." We...
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The Seattle Times
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/books/2009619960_br09cold.html?syndication=rss
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...Life Lessons From History's Great Explorers." Loosely inspired, you'd imagine, since the book recounted the exploits of Ernest Shackleton and Captain Cook, among others, and we can't see Universal sanctioning an actual bid for the North Pole. With his upcoming...
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Empire: Movie News & Reviews
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...Ben Nevis, where inevitably bad weather prompted comparisons to perilous Antarctic expeditions of Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton. In May, he visited a six-acre oil rig "island" in the Arctic's Beaufort Sea. The temperature was a balmy 18 degrees,...
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Los Angeles Times
http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/features/books/~3/AytoGbnxOTs/la-et-book3-2009aug03,0,6868633.story
Survivants des glaces La Corderie Royale a mis en scène lépopée de Sir Ernest Shackleton vers le pôle Sud de 1914 à 1917. Echec ou exploit, cette expédition dantesque est inscrite dans les annales en raison dune couverture photographique exceptionnelle et de son issue inespérée. www.corderie-royale.com
Virgin Trains 221108 departs Chester for Holyhead
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Each year we celebrate many centenaries but here's a list of the centenaries which occured this year that didn't seem to make the news much.
1) 100 years ago on January 16th 1909 the British explorer Ernest Shackleton claimed his polar expedition had
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Associated Content
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1920876/centenaries_you_might_not_have_heared.html
All you need to know about Shackleton - the heroic Polar explorer
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It's probably safe to say that an ad campaign aimed at the Jackass
crowd (males 18-24) has never before quoted the poetry of Walt
Whitman so extensively (if at all). So naysayers might be moved to
dismiss this raw, exciting -- even brainy -- new Levi's
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AdWeek
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Third man factor: People in danger have reported the presence of another person who helped them to safety
Sleep-deprived, starving and gasping for air, former RAF pilot Frank Smythe was alone on Mount Everest.
One by one, his fellow mountaineers had
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Daily Mail - UK
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1197394/The-Third-Man-Factor-How-dire-peril-felt-sudden-presence-inspiring-survive.html?ITO=1490
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Who and where — Lynn and Luci Bradley of Belleville visited the grave of famous explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton on South Georgia Island in the South Atlantic Ocean in February. Both are retired professors at Southwestern Illinois College, and Lynn is
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/lifestyle/stories.nsf/travel/story/463A4D5FCC54D041862575DF00742CA8?OpenDocument
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As near death experiences go Ernest Shackleton’s 1914-1916 ill fated Antarctica expedition is the stuff of the legends. Now, courtesy of Hamburg’s multi instrumentalist Frank Bossert and his Eureka project the expedition is the stuff of an excellent
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Blogcritics.org
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Scott to an expedition led by Scott's former colleague, Ernest Shackleton, in 1907-8 to the South Pole using Scott's 1901-4 McMurdo Sound base on the Ross Sea coast. Scott tries to halt Shackleton's plans, which threaten his own aims to be first to the Pole, by denying Shackleton permission to use McMurdo, but Shackleton defies Scott's wishes. To Scott's relief, Shackleton does not reach the Pole, but comes to within 97 miles of it. Scott cites Shackleton's achievement as proof that the Pole ...
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Email Patrick Gower, or call him on 04 471 9242.
Richard Worth once likened entering politics to a 1906 advertisement by Sir Ernest Shackleton for participants on an Antarctic expedition.
"Persons wanted for
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New Zealand Herald
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10576316&ref=rss
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A replica of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s boat the James Caird will be one of the star attractions at the Beale Park Thames Boat Show this weekend.
The James Caird was a salvage boat used by Shackleton in his Antarctic expedition after his ship The
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Get Reading
http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/2051738_beale_park_boat_show_this_weekend
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Wanted. Men for hazardous journey. Low wages. Bitter cold. Long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in the event of success.
Legendary British adventurer Ernest Shackleton is said to have placed the quote above in
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New Zealand Herald
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/cricket/news/article.cfm?c_id=29&objectid=10575563&ref=rss
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GrooveLily's Ernest Shackleton Loves Me and Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk's Tales from the Bad Years will be part of TheatreWorks' 2009 New Works Festival in Palo Alto this summer.
Launching the festival will be a full production of the country
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Playbill
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The way Ernest Shackleton, above, solved his expedition's problems offers key lessons, says Prof Buelens
Photo: PA
The range of skills demanded by employers broadens with every passing year.
Where once commitment and technical ability were
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The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/expateducation/5377538/Lessons-from-the-past-in-coping-with-pressure.html
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"Wanted. Men for hazardous journey. Low wages. Bitter cold. Long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honor and recognition in the event of success."
Ernest Shackleton’s 1907 ad in London’s Times, recruiting a crew to sail with him
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Male Pattern Fitness
http://www.malepatternfitness.com/2009/5/18/879426/wanted-men-for-hazardous-journey
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FOR years Barbara Johns had planned her expedition to Antarctica.
The Russian-flagged Spirit of Enderby is moored to the ice at McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, where explorers Ernest Shackleton and Robert Falcon Scott built base huts. Picture: Greg Roberts
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The Australian
http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,25467409-5002031,00.html?from=public_rss
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The three-man team celebrate their successful expedition
IF YOU drew up a list of history’s greatest leaders, Ernest Shackleton’s name would be bound to feature. Few could fail to be impressed by the exploits of the polar explorer, known simply as “the
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Press and Journal
http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1215001
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In March 1901, the RRS Discovery set sail from Dundee, Scotland, its crew pointing it toward largely unexplored Antarctica. The ship, it turned out, was a wooden three-masted sailing vessel was the last of its kind to be made in Britain.
But that’s
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World Hum | Travel Guide
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In the annals of world exploration, few names resound so honorably as that of Ernest Henry Shackleton (below). Born in Ireland in 1874, he believed from boyhood that his destiny lay on the sea, and, though pressed by his parents to become a doctor, he
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Britannica Blog
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Notice: Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages. Bitter cold. Long months of complete darkness. Constant danger. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success.
When the heroic adventurer Sir Ernest Shackleton posted this ad in
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TheNewsTribune.com
http://www.thenewstribune.com/soundlife/story/699653.html?source=rss
Antarctica 07 Living in Antarctica Kirk Watson Drakes Passage Please watch in HD as it looks a bit low quality in the standard screen. In this short film I set sail from the Falkland Islands to Antarctica on the RRS Ernest Shackleton. We sail out away from Stanley and across the Drakes passage in rough seas and a high percentage of the crew and passengers get seasick. ... Antarctica 07 Living in Kirk Watson Drakes Passage Ernest Shackleton
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In January 1909, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and three companions
set out to walk 800 miles to the South Pole, but were forced to turn back
only 97 miles from their goal. One hundred years later, three blood
relatives of the original team
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Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article6015658.ece
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"It's a lesson for anyone who says politics isn't ideological. Having a smaller public sector is very much an ideological move."
MIKE Kaiser is a True Believer. His true belief in Morris Iemma and Anna Bligh propelled them both to remarkable
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The Australian
http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,25253458-2702,00.html?from=public_rss
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The last known photo taken of Sir Ernest Shackleton, which was sold at auction
Photo: PA
The picture is believed to have been taken in October 1921 by a holidaymaker who chanced upon Shackleton and his team in Madeira during his final Antarctic
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The Telegraph
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/antarctica/5050121/Sir-Ernest-Shackletons-last-photograph-and-autograph-sold-at-auction.html
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...The last known photo taken of Sir Ernest Shackleton, which was sold at auction Photo: PA The picture is believed to have been taken in October 1921 by a holidaymaker who chanced upon Shackleton and his team in Madeira during his final Antarctic expedition. Known...
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The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/antarctica/5050121/Sir-Ernest-Shackletons-last-photograph-and-autograph-sold-at-auction.html
su pais este ultimo gran desafio de la exploracion terrestre. Sin embargo, el 19 de enero de 1915, a solo un dia de camino del continente, el Endurance quedo atrapado en el hielo. Este magnifico documental sigue los pasos de la expedicion original desde la isla de Georgia del Sur hasta Isla Elefantes, el mar de Weddell y el regreso a Europa, al tiempo que aporta insolitas imagenes rescatadas de aquella odisea, logrando un documento de primer orden y de vision obligada para todos los ...
su pais este ultimo gran desafio de la exploracion terrestre. Sin embargo, el 19 de enero de 1915, a solo un dia de camino del continente, el Endurance quedo atrapado en el hielo. Este magnifico documental sigue los pasos de la expedicion original desde la isla de Georgia del Sur hasta Isla Elefantes, el mar de Weddell y el regreso a Europa, al tiempo que aporta insolitas imagenes rescatadas de aquella odisea, logrando un documento de primer orden y de vision obligada para todos los ...
su pais este ultimo gran desafio de la exploracion terrestre. Sin embargo, el 19 de enero de 1915, a solo un dia de camino del continente, el Endurance quedo atrapado en el hielo. Este magnifico documental sigue los pasos de la expedicion original desde la isla de Georgia del Sur hasta Isla Elefantes, el mar de Weddell y el regreso a Europa, al tiempo que aporta insolitas imagenes rescatadas de aquella odisea, logrando un documento de primer orden y de vision obligada para todos los ...
su pais este ultimo gran desafio de la exploracion terrestre. Sin embargo, el 19 de enero de 1915, a solo un dia de camino del continente, el Endurance quedo atrapado en el hielo. Este magnifico documental sigue los pasos de la expedicion original desde la isla de Georgia del Sur hasta Isla Elefantes, el mar de Weddell y el regreso a Europa, al tiempo que aporta insolitas imagenes rescatadas de aquella odisea, logrando un documento de primer orden y de vision obligada para todos los ...
su pais este ultimo gran desafio de la exploracion terrestre. Sin embargo, el 19 de enero de 1915, a solo un dia de camino del continente, el Endurance quedo atrapado en el hielo. Este magnifico documental sigue los pasos de la expedicion original desde la isla de Georgia del Sur hasta Isla Elefantes, el mar de Weddell y el regreso a Europa, al tiempo que aporta insolitas imagenes rescatadas de aquella odisea, logrando un documento de primer orden y de vision obligada para todos los ...
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PRESIDENT Mary McAleese led a stream of tributes to a team of intrepid Irish explorers when they arrived at the South Pole last week.Adventurers Pat Falvey, 50, from Kerry, Dr. Clare O'Leary, 35, from Bandon, Co. Cork, and Dubliners Jonathan Bradshaw, 3
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Irish Central
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Set sail aboard the Endurance with Sir Ernest Shackleton and his 27-man crew and witness one of the most extraordinary survival stories of all time. Winning film for Best Cinematography in 2001
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Funds dried up, disaster would strike and journeys go awry.
Pen Hadow is crossing the Arctic sea on foot to measure the state of the sea ice
From Dr David Livingtone's lone wandering through Africa, to the frozen journeys taken by
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Eyebeam reBlog
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I’ve just spent 17 days on a ship, travelling from Cape to Cape via Antarctica, The Falklands, South Georgia and Tristan Da Cunha in the Southern Atlantic.
60-mile-per-hour winds meant we were unable to land at South Georgia and see the grave of the
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FourFourTwo.com
http://fourfourtwo.com/blogs/confessionsofacorrespondent/archive/2009/03/07/whaling-stations-paper-rounds-amp-transcribing-david-may.aspx
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Fortuna Bay, South Georgia
Ernest Shackleton had an intimate relationship with South Georgia. He stopped here for a month in 1914 before sailing the "Endurance" to its crushing fate in Antarctica; a year and a half later with five others he sailed the
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