113 years ago today, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition arrives at the magnetic South Pole. His 1907-1909 journey there and back won him a knighthood, while establishing a new, Farthest South latitude of 88° 23′ S, a point only 112 miles from the literal South Pole, discovered by Amundsen 2 years later. The Irish […]
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113 years ago today, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition arrives at the magnetic South Pole. His 1907-1909 journey there and back won him a knighthood, while establishing a new, Farthest South latitude of 88° 23′ S, a point only 112 miles from the literal South Pole, discovered by Amundsen 2 years later. The Irish
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