![]() ![]() What: Shackleton 100 Exhibition celebrates his life and exploits from Sydenham to South Georgia. Historian Dan Snow shares five of the best events being held to mark the centenary of Shackleton’s death. ![]() The top priority for the research ship? Not to get trapped in the ice. On the centenary of Shackleton’s death, it feels like he would approve of our journey to one of the most remote places on Earth to engage the world with the polar regions, science, adventure and the memory of one of history’s greatest explorers. And with state-of-theart camera equipment, I will provide a blow-by-blow account, via satellite. New technology can search a wide area below the ice sheet. The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust is launching a major effort to locate the ship while also investigating changing weather, ice and sea life patterns. This year I am lucky enough to join an expedition to find the Endurance. Their rescue was completed in August 1916 and all returned home. ![]() Shackleton found vessels to reach those he’d left behind. A Norwegian whaler told Shackleton war was still being fought, millions were being killed – and “the world is mad”. ![]()
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