SIR ERNEST HENRY SHACKLETON CVO, OBE, FRGS (1874-1922)A GLASS THERMOMETER

Shackleton led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He had been third officer on Scott's Discovery Expedition, then between 1907-1909 on the Nimrod Expedition, he established a new record for venturing the farthest South. He led the ill-fated Imperial Trans-Atlantic (Endurance) Expedition of 1914-1917 when the ship was crushed by ice, eventually sinking in 1915. His final expedition (The Shackleton-Rowett Expedition), sadly ended in tragedy when Shackleton died of a heart attack in South Georgia in 1922.