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Polar explorer's 800 mile lifeboat journey is recreated

Almost 100 years ago polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton set out to try and cross the Antarctic and failed.
His expedition is seen as one of history's greatest stories of survival and leadership. When his ship sank Shackleton and five others travelled 800 miles in a small lifeboat to find help.
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Ed ~ The tragedy was that he safely lead them back to the slaughter fields of France.



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Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, CVO, OBE (15 February 1874 - 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish polar explorer, one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
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Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure (2001)



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