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Hace 5 días · SURVIVAL. Shackleton’s team lived on ice floes for five months, before escaping in small boats to Elephant Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. The explorer and five men then sailed north 1,300 kilometres to the island of South Georgia, part of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, in stormy, freezing seas in a tiny open boat, before organising a ...
Hace 4 días · With the South Pole claimed by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and Scott’s doomed Terra Nova Expedition still missing, Shackleton set his sights on being the first to travel across the...
Hace 1 día · Between December 1908 and February 1909: Shackleton and three members of his expedition became the first humans to traverse the Ross Ice Shelf, the first to cross the Transantarctic Mountains (via the Beardmore Glacier), and the first to set foot on the south Polar Plateau.
Hace 4 días · The ship never reached the Southern Ocean and Shackleton died of a heart attack in his cabin off the South Atlantic island of South Georgia, but the ship long outlasted him, eventually sinking ...
Hace 5 días · Shackleton took his two strongest men and set off across the peaks on May 19, 1916. Thirty-six hours later, Shackleton and his men became the first to cross South Georgia. This feat was not done again until 1955, when a British survey team, led by Duncan Carse, crossed South Georgia.
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Hace 1 día · It is part of the Caucasus region, bounded by the Black Sea to the west, Russia to the north and northeast, Turkey to the southwest, Armenia to the south, and Azerbaijan to the southeast. Georgia covers an area of 69,700 square kilometres (26,900 sq mi).
