homework presention

1. BY: BRAD ELLIOTT
OCTOBER 2010

2.  Ernest Shackleton was a famous Antarctic
explorer. His parents were Henry and
Henrietta. Shackleton was born on the 15 of
February1874 and died on the 5 of January
1922(age 47).

3.  Anglo-Irish
shackletoncentenary.org

4.  On 1 January 1908, Nimrod sailed for the
Antarctic from Lyttelton Harbour, New
Zealand. The "Great Southern Journey", began
on 19 October 1908. On 9 January 1909
Shackleton and three companions (Wild, Eric
Marshall and Jameson Adams) reached a new
farthest south latitude of 88°23'S, a point only
180 km from the South Pole.

5.  Explorer
www.wikipedia.org

6.  Shackleton's restlessness at school was such that
he was allowed to leave at 16 and go to sea. The
options available were a Royal Naval cadetship at
HMS Britannia, which Dr Shackleton could not
afford, the mercantile marine cadet ships Worcester
and Conway, or an apprenticeship "before the
mast" on a sailing vessel. The third option was
chosen. His father was able to secure him a berth
with the North Western Shipping Company, aboard
the square-rigged sailing ship Hoghton Tower.

7.  Ernest Shackleton explored Antarctica
map-of-antarctica.us

8.  www.wikipedia.org
 map-of-antarctica.us
 shackletoncentenary.org