Born Kilkee, county Clare, Ireland. He led several Antarctic expeditions and located the South magnetic pole during his voyage of 1907-1909. Died of a heart attach on a voyage to the South Atlantic on his ship Quest moored in South Georgia.
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Sir Ernest Shackleton
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Hay's Wharf - riverside
Hay's Galleria In the mid 1850's, following the steady rise of the River Tham...
Shackleton statue
In Exhibition Road façade, on left of picture. This bronze statue stands in a...
Sir Ernest Shackleton - SE26
Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874 - 1922) antarctic explorer, lived here. L.C.C.
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Thomas Evans
Role on the lost expedition: Boy on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
James Fitzjames
Role on the lost expedition: Captain on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
Alexander McDonald
Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
Samuel Honey
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
Captain Matthew Flinders
Explorer and navigator of the Australian seas. Born in Donington, Lincolnshire. Invented the Flinders Bar, a device for counteracting the vertical component of a ship's magnetic field, and gave Aus...
2 memorials
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Lord Palumbo
Created a life peer on 4 February 1991 as Baron Palumbo of Walbrook in the City of London.
7 memorials
Zimbabwe House - Epstein
WC2, Strand, 429
Don’t believe Wikipedia when it says that "the mutilated condition of many of the sculptures has nothing to do with prudish censorship". ...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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