Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance

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Sir Ernest Shackleton wanted to explore Antarctica by boat. In 1901, Sir Ernest Shackleton went on the Antarctic expedition. “In 1908, he returned to the Antarctic as the leader of his own expedition, on the ship 'Nimrod'.” (http://www.bbc.co.uk) "In 1914, Shackleton made his third trip to the Antarctic with the ship 'Endurance', planning to cross Antarctica via the South Pole."
Ernest Shackleton has faces many challenges, such as leading the expedition to Antarctica on the ship ‘Endurance’, without a death of any of his crew members, despite all of the struggles they went through. A precedent of this is when the ship eventually got stuck in the ice, and later sank. In 1916, Shackleton sailed his crew in three lifeboats to Elephant Island,

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