It's one of the personality traits Sir Ernest Shackleton looked for, when signing-on crew for his expeditions.
Ernest Shackleton is buried in the capital, Grytviken, which used to be the centre of the island's whaling industry.
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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Phillips traced the steps of famous explorer, Sir Ernest Shackleton.
Marc Buelens, who teaches in the international MBA program at the Vlerick Management School, in Belgium, now devotes a large part of his leadership course to an extended case study of the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton.
It would go on to host performances and lectures delivered by Irish dramatist and political thinker George Bernard Shaw, Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton and Pankhurst, one of the leading figures in the campaign for votes for women.
Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man up Everest, used to say that if you were in real trouble in a difficult place you needed an explorer called Ernest Shackleton, because he understood his people, knew how hard it was to lead well, and was prepared to do the right thing.
At a recent leadership conference in Chicago, for instance, he regaled 2, 000 middle managers with tales of Ernest Shackleton, a turn-of-the-century explorer who helped his party escape certain death in Antarctica -- and whose story just happened to be the subject of Endurance: Shackletons Incredible Voyage, the first volume in the Adventure Library.
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