Awards for Polar Exploration - Recipients of the Polar Medal, Robert Falcon Scott, Ernest Shackleton, Tom Crean, Aeneas Mackintosh (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 61. Chapters: Recipients of the Polar Medal, Robert Falcon Scott, Ernest Shackleton, Tom Crean, Aeneas Mackintosh, Edward L. Atkinson, Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans, Robert Swan, Henry Frederick Stephenson, Edward Adrian Wilson, Tryggve Gran, Frank Wild, Erasmus Ommanney, Joseph Stenhouse, Arthur Fleming Morrell, Kevin Walton, Robert Ryder, Henry Robertson Bowers, Richard Butson, Launcelot Fleming, Ernest Wild, Wally Herbert, Vivian Fuchs, Louis Bernacchi, Sandy Glen, John Bechervaise, Edgar Evans, Michael Barne, William Lashly, Gino Watkins, Antarctica Service Medal, Andrew Croft, Perce Blackborow, Frank Debenham, Richard W. Richards, Frank Worsley, George Mulock, Augustine Courtauld, Reginald William Skelton, Frank Bickerton, Charles Hoadley, A Device, Australian Antarctic Medal, United States Antarctic Expedition Medal, Coast Guard Arctic Service Medal, Clarence Petersen de la Motte, Albert Armitage, Maudheim medal, Dougal Goodman. Excerpt: Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, CVO, OBE (15 February 1874 - 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish explorer who was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. His first experience of the polar regions was as third officer on Captain Robert Falcon Scott's Discovery Expedition, 1901-04, from which he was sent home early on health grounds. Determined to make amends for this perceived personal failure, he returned to Antarctica in 1907 as leader of the Nimrod Expedition. In January 1909 he and three companions made a southern march which established a record Farthest South latitude at 88 23'S, 97 geographical miles (114 statute miles, 190 km) from the South Pole, by far the closest convergence in exploration history up to that time. For this achievement, Shackleton was knighted by King Edward VII on his return home. After the race to the South Po...