SHACKELTON THE FILM

 

"SOMETHING TO KEEP YOU WARM IN ANTARTICA DEAR"

Mistress Rosalind Chetwynd  gave Sir Ernest this sweater and it sold at auction in 2012 at Christies for $15, 028.


DINOSAURS AND ROBOTS LINK to picture and auction info 

GOOGLE HONORED SHACKLETON'S BIRTHDAY WITH THIS SPECIAL PAGE HEADER

SHACKLETON'S BIRTHDAY HITS THE GOOGLE HEADLINES


Shackleton enthusiasts will be delighted to know that on Shackleton's birthdate, 15th February 2011, Google honoured the great explorer with one of its special page headers.

It looked like this:

 

 

A quote from the JAMES CAIRD SOCIETY WEB SITE:

 

"On his return to Britain, Shackleton was restless and began drinking too much: 'frivolously boyish' was one acquaintance's opinion of his behaviour. He found domestic life stifling and veered between irritability and remorse. He was sent on a war propaganda mission to Buenos Aires, unsuccessfully trying to persuade Argentina and Chile to forsake neutrality and enter the war with the Allies. Then in 1918 he headed an undercover expedition to establish a British presence in the far north of neutral Norway (where he had a suspected heart attack). Finally, following the Armistice in November, he became 'staff officer in charge of Arctic equipment' during the Allies' war against the Bolsheviks in the new Soviet Union, remaining in Murmansk as little more than a glorified storekeeper. Most of the time in between he lived at the Mayfair home of his mistress, American divorcée Rosalind Chetwynd. South, his account of the Endurance escapade, was published in 1919 and he hit the lecture circuit with tales of the ordeal."

 

JAMES CAIRD SOCIETY LINK to SHACKELTON PAGE

PRINCE HARRY AND WOUNDED VETS REACH SOUTH POLE AFTER THREE WEEK TREK

YAHOO NEWS : PRINCE HARRY AND VETS REACH SOUTH POLE news link.

(They were later helicoptered out as a great storm was approaching that would have stranded them there.)