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Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer (1874–1922)

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Sir Ernest Henry ShackletonCVO OBE FRGS FRSGS (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-IrishAntarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic.

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He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

Born in Kilkea, County Kildare, Ireland, Shackleton and his Anglo-Irish family^[1] moved to Sydenham in suburban south London when he was ten.

Shackleton's first experience of the polar regions was as third officer on Captain Robert Falcon Scott's Discovery Expedition of 1901–1904, from which he was sent home early on health grounds, after he and his companions Scott and Edward Adrian Wilson set a new southern record by marching to latitude 82°S.

During the Nimrod Expedition of 1907–1909, he and three companions established a new record Farthest S