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The Balleny corridor through the Southern Ocean would be used by future explorers such as Robert Scott, Ernest Shackleton, Roald Amundsen, and Richard Byrd, and is used today by surface vessels resupplying McMurdo and other scientific bases located in and around the Ross Sea sector of Antarctica.
* Nimrod ( ship ), the ship used by Ernest Shackleton during his 1908 Antarctic expedition
Ernest Shackleton selected Coventry-Simplex to power the tractors that were to be used in his Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914.
The squadron flew the next twelve years with the Avro Shackleton MR. 3, a version that used a tricycle undercarriage as opposed to the earlier tailwheel variants.
In 1951, it reopened as a Coastal Command base used for maritime reconnaissance, flying Avro Lancaster and Avro Shackleton aircraft.
* RRS Ernest Shackleton, a ship used by the British Antarctic Survey
Some of the more successful British aircraft with contra-rotating propellers are the Avro Shackleton, powered by the Rolls-Royce Griffon engine, and the Fairey Gannet, which used the Double Mamba Mk. 101 engine.
* James Caird ( boat ), a whaleboat named after James Key Caird, used by Sir Ernest Shackleton
A small number of aircraft continued to use turrets however — in particular maritime patrol aircraft such as the Avro Shackleton used one as an offensive weapon against small unarmoured surface targets.
It was the common food of early twentieth century Antarctic expeditions, used, for example, by the expeditions of Robert Falcon Scott ( 1910 – 1913 ) and Ernest Shackleton ( 1914 – 1916 ).
* In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton took supplies of Vat 69 on his Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, stating that it would be used for medicinal and celebratory purposes.

Shackleton and with
* Sir Nicholas Shackleton ( 1937 – 2006 ), who demonstrated that oscillations in climate over the past few million years could be correlated with variations in the orbital and positional relationship between the Earth and the Sun.
Amundsen, along with Douglas Mawson, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
At 39 years, the noisy but impressive Shackleton held the distinction of being the aircraft with the longest period of active RAF service, until overtaken by the English Electric Canberra in 1998.
After the race to the South Pole ended in 1912 with Roald Amundsen's conquest, Shackleton turned his attention to what he said was the one remaining great object of Antarctic journeying — the crossing of the continent from sea to sea, via the pole.
During the following four years at sea, Shackleton learned his trade, visiting the far corners of the earth and forming acquaintances with a variety of people from many walks of life, learning to be at home with all kinds of men.
However, he was in a seriously weakened condition ; Wilson's diary entry for 14 January reads: " Shackleton has been anything but up to the mark, and today he is decidedly worse, very short winded and coughing constantly, with more serious symptoms that need not be detailed here but which are of no small consequence one hundred and sixty miles from the ship ".
Beardmore was sufficiently impressed with Shackleton to offer financial support, but other donations proved hard to come by.
Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, Mawson was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
In 1913 Peary was photographed with North Pole explorer Roald Amundsen and South Pole explorer Ernest Shackleton
The Avro Shackleton was the main operational aircraft 1950s, replacing the wartime Liberator GRs, along with the Neptune MR. 1s.
Shackleton Baily ( 2000 ) with an English translation.
This, along with record-breaking transfer fees to secure the services of Len Shackleton and Welsh international Trevor Ford, led to a contemporary nickname, the " Bank of England ".
( See the State Dining room with the Silver Trust Silver in use for a luncheon ) Above the fireplace, overlooking the room, is a massive portrait by John Shackleton of George II, the king who originally gave the building to the First Lord of the Treasury in 1732.
Independent low-budget distributor and sometime producer Allan Shackleton took the film and shelved it for four years — but was inspired to release it with a new ending, unbeknownst to the original filmmakers, after reading a newspaper article in 1975 on the rumor of snuff films produced in South America and decided to cash in on the urban legend.
Each year the Centre arranges and hosts the Shackleton Autumn School, with speakers from around the world to speak on different aspects of Antarctica and Shackleton's life in particular.
Grytviken is closely associated with the Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton.
* Avro Shackleton with No. 120 Squadron, Royal Air Force Coastal Command, and No. 236 Operational Conversion Unit, Royal Air Force
I don't think we can let him go-though happily this is not an epitaph-without expressing our very deep sorrow to the House and to the country ... with immense thoroughness, patience and personal sensitivity Lord Jellicoe fulfilled his role as Leader of your Lordships House ... we Byers and Shackleton found him an admirable open-minded and wise colleague ; my Lords, I believe that we and the country have suffered a grievous loss ... ( Hansard, 5 June 1973, and The Times, 6 June 1973, for the cheers )
* Kodak feature on Frank Hurley during his voyage with Ernest Shackleton aboard the Endurance
He was the precursor of Robert Falcon Scott, Ernest Shackleton, Roald Amundsen and other more famous names associated with the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
He also met there with fellow-explorers, including Nansen, Shackleton, and Roald Amundsen.

Shackleton and son
Born in Wandsworth, London, he was the younger son of Sir Ernest Shackleton, the Antarctic explorer.
Ace is a Miami-based private detective specializing in the retrieval of missing animals, said to be the son of Ron Ventura and descendant of such as " Ernest Ventura Shackleton " and " Jacques Ventura Costeau ".
They had a son, Julian Shackleton, who played cricket for Gloucestershire, and a daughter.
Jackson, explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Edward Shackleton, geographer and son of Sir Ernest, former Conservative leader and Nova Scotia Premier Robert Stanfield, explorer Henry Larsen, historian L ' abbé Arthur Maheux, anthropologist Diamond Jenness, businessman E. P.

Shackleton and obtain
Undertaken by Sir Ernest Shackleton and five companions, its objective was to obtain rescue for the main body of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914 – 17, trapped on Elephant Island after the loss of its ship Endurance.

Shackleton and interview
In an interview decades later, Roberta Findlay said that the film's distributor Allan Shackleton had read about snuff films being imported from South America and retitled the film to Snuff to exploit the idea ; he also added a new ending that depicted an actress being murdered on a film set.
Next, Matthews appeared in public in 1921 and claimed to have invented the world's first talking picture, an interview of Ernest Shackleton.

Shackleton and Longstaff
Following the outbreak of the Boer War in 1899, Shackleton transferred to the troopship Tintagel Castle where, in March 1900, he met an army lieutenant, Cedric Longstaff, whose father Llewellyn W. Longstaff was the main financial backer of the National Antarctic Expedition, then being organised in London.
Longstaff, impressed by Shackleton's keenness, recommended him to Sir Clements Markham, the expedition's overlord, making it clear that he wanted Shackleton accepted.

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