Ernest Shackleton

              

                         BIOGRAPHY OF ERNEST SHACKLETON

Ernest Shackleton born ON 15th February 1874, in Kilkea, Ireland and he died when he was 48 years ON 5th JAnuary 1922, in Georgia. HIS father was Henry Shackleton and his mother was Henrietta Letitia Sophia Gavan. He married Emily Dorman. After  HE married he had two boys called Raymond and Edward and one girl called Cecily. When he WAS 16 years old he enlistED in the army.

Ernest TOOK PART in the Expedition Discovery with Robert Falcon Scott FROM 1901 to 1903. Later he participed in the Expedition Nimrod FROM 1907 to 1909 and in the Expedition Imperial Trasantartic FROM 1914 to 1917. In 1917 he came back to England and he went to the First World War, in 1918 he came back to England.

But Ernest was importan because he explored the AntartCTICA and  BECAUSE he discovered a specific place of Antarctica.

     
                                      Andrei Gabriel Vlasceanu 2ºB