Irish explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his wife Lady Emily Shackleton on board SS Endurance at Millwall Docks, London, England before leaving for the Antarctic, 1914.The renowned polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton was planning to move to Canada and become a Canadian, and even bought land here, it emerged Thursday as a plaque in his honour was unveiled in Westminster Abbey in England.
But he is most celebrated for surviving in Antarctica against the odds with his entire crew of 28 – which included a stowaway – after they were marooned on the sea ice in glacial conditions for months. Shackleton then endured a 1,330-kilometre ocean voyage in stormy seas in a lifeboat. With his crew, he set out to uninhabited Elephant Island and then, with a few men, further braved the icy waters, gigantic waves and wind in the largest lifeboat to fetch help for his weakened men in the South Atlantic island of South Georgia. Trekking around 65 km across the ice, they eventually found a whaling station.
Mr. Geiger said Shackleton used Ottawa’s Chateau Laurier hotel as a base, and also bought property in Port Arthur, Ont., which is now Thunder Bay. He was fond of the poems of Robert Service, who moved from Scotland to Canada and lived in a cabin in Yukon, as well as on Vancouver Island.
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