• The ShackletonRowett Expedition (1921–22) was Sir Ernest Shackleton's last Antarctic project, and the final episode in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration...
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  • The ShackletonRowett Expedition, 1921–22, was the last Antarctic expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton. Proposed as an ambitious two-year programme...
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    miles (1,330 km; 830 mi) in Shackleton's most famous exploit. He returned to the Antarctic with the ShackletonRowett Expedition in 1921, but died of a heart...
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    March 1919. He thereafter organised one final Antarctic expedition, the ShackletonRowett Expedition on Quest, which left London on 17 September 1921. From...
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    island of South Georgia, while en route to Antarctica during the ShackletonRowett Expedition. Following Sir Ernest's death in South Georgia, Lady Emily worked...
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    1901–1904 expedition ship Discovery, and Shackleton's crew lacked relevant experience. Controversy arose from Shackleton's decision to base the expedition in...
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    later Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition sailed for Antarctica, while Robert Falcon Scott was preparing a further expedition should Shackleton fail. Amundsen...
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    Nova Expedition. They were chosen from 8,000 applicants, and included seven Discovery veterans together with five who had been with Shackleton on his...
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    Quest (ship) (category Ernest Shackleton)
    exploration vessel of the ShackletonRowett Expedition of 1921–1922. It was aboard this vessel that Sir Ernest Shackleton died on 5 January 1922 while...
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    Robert Falcon Scott (category Antarctic expedition deaths)
    joined in the official receptions that greeted Shackleton on his return in 1909 after the Nimrod Expedition, and the two exchanged polite letters about their...
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