{"slug": "ernest-shackleton", "label": "Ernest Shackleton", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Shackleton", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q957543", "qid": "Q957543", "description": "Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer (1874–1922)", "entries": 13, "years": 10, "span": [1874, 2022], "span_label": ["1874 CE", "2022 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 10}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "south-pole", "label": "South Pole", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "atlantic-ocean", "label": "Atlantic Ocean", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "antarctica", "label": "Antarctica", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "robert-falcon-scott", "label": "Robert Falcon Scott", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1874, "year_label": "1874 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "February 15", "text": "February 15 – Sir Ernest Shackleton, Irish explorer (d. 1922)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371979117#February", "title": "1874", "revid": 1371979117, "section": "Births › February"}}, {"year": 1902, "year_label": "1902 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "December 30", "text": "December 30 – Discovery Expedition: British explorers Scott, Shackleton and Wilson reach the furthest southern point reached thus far by man, south of 82°S.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373318639#December", "title": "1902", "revid": 1373318639, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1907, "year_label": "1907 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "December", "text": "December – Edgeworth David joins Ernest Shackleton’s Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366189491#Events", "title": "1907 in Wales", "revid": 1366189491, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1908, "year_label": "1908 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "January 1", "text": "January 1 – The British Nimrod Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton sets sail from New Zealand for Antarctica on the Nimrod.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373410903#January", "title": "1908", "revid": 1373410903, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1908, "year_label": "1908 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "March 10", "text": "10 March – Australians Douglas Mawson and Edgeworth David accompanied by Ernest Shackleton and others are the first people to scale Mount Erebus in Antarctica.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1323151166#Events", "title": "1908 in Australia", "revid": 1323151166, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1909, "year_label": "1909 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "January 9", "text": "January 9 – The British Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, led by Ernest Shackleton, arrives at the farthest south reached by any prior expedition, at 88°23' S, prior to turning back due to diminishing supplies.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373420847#January–February", "title": "1909", "revid": 1373420847, "section": "Events › January–February"}}, {"year": 1909, "year_label": "1909 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "January 9", "text": "9 January – Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole forced to turn back 112 miles from the pole.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361095211#Events", "title": "1909 in the United Kingdom", "revid": 1361095211, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1914, "year_label": "1914 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "August 8", "text": "August 8 – Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition sets sail on the Endurance from Britain, in an attempt to cross Antarctica.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373518346#August", "title": "1914", "revid": 1373518346, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1915, "year_label": "1915 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "November 21", "text": "November 21 – British polar exploration ship Endurance finally breaks apart from pressure of ice around it and sinks into the Weddell Sea, stranding Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition party in the Antarctic. The wreck is discovered at a depth of 3,008 metres (9,869 ft), 107 years later in 2022.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373518749#November", "title": "1915", "revid": 1373518749, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1916, "year_label": "1916 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "April 24", "text": "April 24–May 10 – Voyage of the James Caird: An open boat journey from Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands to South Georgia in the southern Atlantic Ocean (800 nmi) is undertaken by Sir Ernest Shackleton and five companions, to obtain rescue for the main body of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, following the loss of its ship Endurance.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373519106#April", "title": "1916", "revid": 1373519106, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1916, "year_label": "1916 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "April 24", "text": "24 April–19 May – Voyage of the James Caird, an open boat journey from Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands to South Georgia in the southern Atlantic Ocean (800 nmi) undertaken by Sir Ernest Shackleton and five companions to obtain rescue for the main body of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (left under command of Frank Wild) following the loss of its ship Endurance.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371239859#Events", "title": "1916 in the United Kingdom", "revid": 1371239859, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1922, "year_label": "1922 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 5", "text": "January 5 – Sir Ernest Shackleton, British explorer (b. 1874)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369983934#January", "title": "1922", "revid": 1369983934, "section": "Deaths › January"}}, {"year": 2022, "year_label": "2022 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "March 5", "text": "March 5 – Researchers in the Antarctic find Endurance, one of the greatest ever undiscovered shipwrecks, which sank in 1915 during Ernest Shackleton's exploration.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371998228#March", "title": "2022", "revid": 1371998228, "section": "Events › March"}}]}