Peterson Great Explorer Brown Shackleton

Born in Co. Kildare, Ireland in 1874, Shackleton joined the Navy and worked his way up the ranks. In 1902 he made his first Antarctic expedition as part of Scott´s Discovery He returned in 1907 getting within 90 miles of the South Pole, a great success at the time. Shakleton made two further ill-fated expeditions, one of which as the famous Endurance expedition on which Shackleton and his men were stranded on a vast floating block of ice for months. In 1922 he died in South Georgia on this fourth attempt to reach the South Pole.