A Portrait of the Explorer Lieutenant Shackleton. His team planted the Union Jack on the South Magnetic Pole on January 16th, 1909. Ernest Shackleton was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer. Between 1907 and 1909 he led the Nimrod Expedition, also referred to as The British Antarctic Expedition. From a bound annual: The Wonderful Year, 1909. An illustrated record of notable achievements and events from The Daily News, London and Manchester, published by Headley Brothers, 1909.

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