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English: Left to right - Wild, Shackleton, Marshall, Adams. The four members of the party that set out to attempt to become the first to reach the South pole, they were defeated by the weather, but also a lack of supplies and suitable equipment just 97 miles from the South Pole, a point they reached on January the 9th 1909. Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) British Imperial Antarctic Expedition "Nimrod - Expedition", 1907 -1909
Türkçe: Nimrod keşif seferi ekibi, (soldan sağa): Wild, Shackleton, Marshall ve Adams
Date 1909
Source "The Heart of the Antarctic", Volume I, by E. H. Shackleton, 1909. P. 364. Downloaded from http://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/History/images/shackleton_the_pole_party.htm Originally from en.wikipedia; description page is/was here.
Author probably James Murray (1865–1914)
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