Family of the only Argentine naval officer killed and buried in South Georgia during ... remains of Ernest Shackleton rest, but his family have never been able to visit the grave.

80p – Shackleton’s Grave Possibly the most famous resident of the Grytviken cemetery, the remains of the explorer Ernest Shackleton were laid to rest on South Georgia in 1922 after he suffered ...

The cabin in which British polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton died aboard his ship “Quest” looks set to become an important new artefact at the South Georgia Museum. The cabin was removed ...

“It was a privilege to remember Sir Ernest Shackleton with HMS Protector’s ship’s company at his grave on South Georgia, nearly 100 years from his burial in March 1922,” said the survey ...

in South Georgia, a UK overseas territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean. Crew members of the Shackleton-Rowett expedition erected a memorial at Hope Point, near to his final resting place in ...

Harold Briley sent this reply: "Congratulations on your successful climb across South Georgia's daunting mountains in Shackleton's footsteps, in similar challenging weather conditions. You are ...

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The men landed at King Haakon Bay on the uninhabited south coast of South Georgia, and Shackleton and two others trekked across the then-unmapped glaciers and mountains of the island to Stromness ...

The government and treasury of the South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands issued on 26 February new crown coins that commemorate the birth of the famous explorer, Sir Ernest Shackleton. Born on ...

Shackleton died in 1922, aged 47, in Grytviken, South Georgia, during his fourth voyage ... whaling stations – known as the Hope Cross. The memorial survived for almost a century before it ...

The memorial stood for almost a century ... on board his ship The Endurance between 1914-1917, Shackleton reached Grytviken on South Georgia Island onboard the Quest but suffered a fatal heart ...

visitors have been drawn to South Georgia by the prospect of viewing tens of thousands of king penguins on a single, unspoilt beach or to walk in the footsteps of Sir Ernest Shackleton and pay ...