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My Shackleton

How did Shackleton find you?

A collaborative online exhibition marking the centenary of the death of Sir Ernest Shackleton at South Georgia. Using your images, text, and other contributions, My Shackleton paints a picture of Shackleton’s enduring power to inspire, teach and intrigue today.

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Click on the images below to find out more about the people and their story.

"Shackleton’s last expedition used my grandfather’s dogs. They were bred for hauling loads of fish across a frozen Lake Winnipeg in Canada and were, more or less, famous...

Jim Best

"Shackleton’s story is embedded in SGHT (South Georgia Heritage Trust) – his image, words and story pervade our charitable work for South Georgia...

Alison Neil, CEO South Georgia Heritage Trust

"In 1981 I joined a scout group in Chorleywood where Dr Leonard Hussey had been President and had left his collection of glass slides...

Paul Sutton

"I first heard of Shackleton in 1994 on my first trip to Antarctica. I couldn't believe he saved all his men...

Karen Ireland

"Sir Ernest Shackleton you could say brought me Frank Wild. It was only by reading about Shackleton that I discovered Wild...

Angie Butler, author and historian

"As a military historian, I first encountered “Shackleton" as the name of a long-range maritime patrol aircraft built by Avro and flown by the RAF...

Malcolm Muir, Jr. : Military Historian

"According to Jonathan Shackleton, I am a second cousin three times removed...

Katey Buchanan: Shackleton relative

"Shackleton found me in Brazil during the BT Global Challenge yacht race. We were preparing for the Southern Ocean and the skipper recommended his story...

Simon Montague

"In 1963, aged 17, I won a school prize and chose the biggest book offered: ‘South!’ It opened my mind to polar exploration, and I dreamed of following that path...

Rosalind Jones

"On my first trip to Antarctica, I read Endurance by Alfred Lansing. I was hooked. Since then, I had the great good fortune to visit King Haakon Bay...

Anne Wesp

"I ran into Sir Shackleton's history after a recommendation coming from another seaman; Brazilian navigator and author Amyr Klink...

Felipe Thomaz de Aquino

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