Shackleton led two successful expeditions, but the most famous one he led was his third, when his ship, the Endurance, got trapped in a rapidly expanding ice floe. They hoped that the ice flow would...
Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922) was a British explorer who commanded three expeditions to the Antarctic (1907-09, 1914-17, 1921-22), during which the South Magnetic Pole was located in 1909.
It was the ill fated ship that was trapped in the Weddell Sea by ice flows, and ultimately, sank. The crew remained stranded in the Antarctic for two years. Fascinating story of survival.