Shackleton Sentence Examples

But the Plateau was to be reached by Shackleton's way up the Beardmore glacier at which point the tracks converged.

Aeneas Mackintosh, brought an auxiliary expedition to lay out depots on the Barrier to facilitate the latter part of Shackleton's march from the Weddell Sea via the South Pole.

This significant but evanescent phenomenon, which represents the direct emissions of a low-lying solar envelope, was photographed by William Shackleton on the occasion of an eclipse in Novaya Zemlya on the 9th of August 1896; and it has since been abundantly registered by exposures made during the obscurations of 1898, 1900, 1901 and 1905.

To keep costs down, much of the mission avionics would be similar to that already used in the Shackleton.

However, Shackleton is not the only polar explorer in demand.

Not really, but I think [antarctic explorer] Ernest Shackleton can teach you a lot.

Scott and Shackleton were not particularly interested in ice and snow and were appallingly ignorant of skis, sledges and furs.

Richard Shackleton was endowed with a grave, pure and tranquil nature, constant and austere, yet not without those gentle elements that often redeem the drier qualities of his religious persuasion.

Madonna has reportedly hired Paul McCartney's former divorce lawyer, Fiona Shackleton.

That Wilkes discovered an Antarctic continent was long doubted, and one of the charges against him when he was court-martialled was that he had fabricated this discovery, but the expedition of Sir Ernest Shackleton in 1908-1909 corroborated Wilkes.

Sir Ernest Shackleton had completed his preparations for an attempt to cross the Antarctic regions from Weddell Sea to Ross Sea before the outbreak of the World War, and carried out his expedition at the direct order of the Admiralty, which declined his offer of the ships and men for war service.

After a four-days rest Shackleton, with two companions, had recovered sufficiently to cross the unknown snow-covered mountains, which had never been climbed before, and a steamer was sent round for the others.

Sir Ernest Shackleton made strenuous efforts to rescue the Elephant I.

King Davis with Sir Ernest Shackleton on board, and on Jan.

In 1741 the three brothers were sent to school at Ballitore in the county of Kildare, kept by Abraham Shackleton, an Englishman, and a member of the Society of Friends.

But the serious pupil of Abraham Shackleton would not be likely to see much of the wild and squalid sizar.