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“Ernest Shackleton describing his 1908 South Pole Expedition”

“The outstanding feature of today’s march is that we have seen new land to the South never seen by human eyes before great snow clad heights we did not see on our journey South on the last Expedition for we were too close to the land or rather foothills and now at the great distance we are out they can plainly be seen.”

“Photo by Philip Brocklehurst : Ernest Shackleton and dogs on Nimrod back from expedition to reach Antarctica”

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“Better a live donkey than a dead lion.”

“Sir Ernest Shackleton at Athy Heritage Centre Museum”

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