“I seemed to vow to myself that someday I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth.”

About Ernest Shackleton

Explorer • British

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton was a renowned British polar explorer who led three expeditions to the Antarctic. He is best known for the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917, where his ship, the Endurance, was...