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Explorers to retrace Shackleton's Antarctic voyage

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SYDNEY, Australia — Explorers are readying themselves for the first-ever re-creation of the epic voyage made by Britain's Ernest Shackleton on his ill-fated attempt to reach the South Pole in 1914, on an exact copy of Shackleton's lifeboat. Shackleton's boat, the Endurance, became trapped in the Antarctic ice and was eventually crushed and sank. His attempt to raise the alarm is considered by many to be one of the greatest journeys ever made. Shackleton took a small party from his crew and rowed 800 miles (1,287 kilometers) on the lifeboat James Caird from Elephant Island to South Georgia, where they knew they could get help from a whaling station. Their journey took from 1914 to 1916. The modern-day British and Australian team, led by Australian explorer and environmentalist Tim Jarvis, will row the same route and then cross the mountainous, glacial interior of South Georgia to reach the north coast.

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Ernest Shackleton Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition Antarctica South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands South Pole Farthest South Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration Roald Amundsen

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Alexandra Shackleton

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• Ernest Shackleton: dbpedia
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• Ernest Shackleton: umbel
• Ernest Shackleton: yago

Tim Jarvis

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0.136656	"You know, we ran the numbers and said what can we do with an exact replica of Shackleton's boat, without cheating, to try and make this ... less susceptible to capsize than what he had," Jarvis said. ...
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• Tim Jarvis: dbpedia
• Tim Jarvis: yago

James Caird

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Explorers are readying themselves for the first-ever re-creation of the epic voyage made by Britain's Ernest Shackleton on his ill-fated attempt to reach the South Pole in 1914, on an exact copy of Shackleton's lifeboat.

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Explorers to retrace Shackleton's Antarctic voyage

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