Today Shackleton's hut is the focus of a conservation project run by the New Zealand government.
Forced to abandon ship, Shackleton and his crew were set adrift on the floes.
Three months later, Shackleton regained the makeshift camp at Elephant Island, after two failed attempts.
Shackleton found that the spot was in fact deep sea, with soundings up to 1, 900 fathoms.
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Joseph Collis is said always to have regretted taking the stone from Shackleton's grave on the island.
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It's one of the personality traits Sir Ernest Shackleton looked for, when signing-on crew for his expeditions.
And they think they find what they are looking for more in Shackleton than Scott, Barczewski suggests.
After the move the department will be based at the site of the former Shackleton Army barracks.
And, unlike Shackleton and his men, this crew hasn't already spent over 500 days abandoned in the Antarctic.
Marco Polo was on there, as was Sir Francis Drake, Vasco da Gama, Magellan, Lewis and Clark and Shackleton.
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Growing up in Brooklyn, he dreamed of being Shackleton at the South Pole or Darwin on board the Beagle.
"Examining Shackleton's methods can teach you five key lessons a leader needs to learn to perform effectively, " Buelens says.
The views expressed are solely those of Richard Shackleton's and not the BBC's.
Ernest Shackleton is buried in the capital, Grytviken, which used to be the centre of the island's whaling industry.
It will be based at the site of the former Shackleton Army barracks.
Shackleton was aiming to circumnavigate the Antarctic continent when he died of a heart attack off South Georgia in 1922.
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In 1914, the British explorer Ernest Shackleton, determined to be the first to cross the continent of Antarctica, led H.
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The Queen Alexandra Range, about 100 miles long, was named by Ernest Shackleton during the British Antarctic expedition in 1907-1909.
It wasn't until Ernest Shackleton's 1914-17 Endurance expedition, however, that the matter of New South Greenland was put to rest.
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The snack was found in the hut at Cape Royds in the Antarctic where Shackleton was based during his Nimrod expedition.
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Stephen Charles McCaughey, 24, from Shackleton Road, Newtownards, is accused of murder.
Once ashore, however, Shackleton realised that help was still far away, across the island's uncharted interior of lofty peaks and glacial moraines.
As well as our re-evaluation of long dead heroes like Shackleton and Scott by modern standards, a different category of person is now feted.
The love and respect found in Shackleton's crew really count commercially.
The Department of Agriculture will move from Dundonald House in east Belfast to the site of the former Shackleton Army barracks in Ballykelly by 2015.
Equipped with nothing more than a length of rope and a carpenter's adze, Shackleton and two crew-members successfully completed the journey in 36 sleepless hours.
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With no hope of being rescued from Elephant Island, Shackleton resolved to undertake the vastly improbable and daring voyage for which he would become justly famous.
Dave Woods, chairman of the Shackleton Preservation Trust, said the focus for the next two years was to ensure the trust had the necessary funds to complete the project.
Sometimes overshadowed by his contemporary Robert Scott, Shackleton demonstrated remarkable leadership skills in managing to save his whole team after they became trapped in Antarctic ice during a failed expedition.
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