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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Ernest Shackleton, the English Antarctic explorer, spoke before an enthusiastic audience in the Living Room of the Union yesterday afternoon and described one of the arduous experiences of his expedition. He said that on the party's return north, their provisions became exhausted and for two months they were compelled to subsist on a diet of dead pony. On the march they suffered terribly from dysentery and each man lost in weight an average of from 30 to 40 pounds...
That same afternoon Shackleton accompanied by three men from the "Nimrod" set out to return for Marshall, and the night passed on the journey was the first in which he had slept since he had begun the forced march. Early the next morning they set out again and on the following night were back at the coast with Marshall and his companion. During the last afternoon a blizzard had been raging and the "Nimrod" had moved to shelter when they arrived. However, they managed by means of calcium torches to attract her attention and at 10 o'clock...
...surmounted practically all difficulties and had only an open plateau between himself and the pole, by the exhaustion of his provisions. As it was he reached a point farther south than had ever before been attained. Lieutenant Shackleton's stay in America will be brief as he intends to return to England shortly to prepare for another Antarctic expedition...
...went to the Pacific coast where for a time he was engaged upon the North-West Boundary Survey. During his stay he visited the principal mines of California and collected specimens for the Museum at Cambridge. Upon his return in 1860, he became assistant in Zoology at the Museum, of which he took charge during his father's absence in Brazil. From 1866 to 1869 he was superintendent of the Calumet and Hecla Copper Company, which he developed from a state of insolvency into the most noted copper mine in the world. During the years 1869 and 1870 he carefully...
...called to Scotland for the purpose of assisting Sir Wyville Thompson in arranging the collections secured by the "Challenger" in her voyage of 68,900 miles while engaged in deep-sea exploration. A portion of these collections he brought with him on his return to America. From 1876 to 1881 he spent his winters in deep-sea dredging on the steamer "Blake" which was furnished him by the Government for that purpose. Subsequently he was engaged in examining the formation of coral reefs, visiting islands in all quarters of the world with reference to Darwin's theory of which...