# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ernest-shackleton
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:11:49.306Z

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name: "Ernest Shackleton"
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description: "He never reached the South Pole, but Shackleton's name endures for the thing he did better than any polar explorer: bringing his men home alive. After his ship Endurance sank in Antarctic pack ice in 1915, he led the entire crew across disintegrating floes, open ocean, and a final 720-nautical-mile lifeboat crossing to South Georgia — without losing a single"
tagline: "Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer (1874–1922)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in County Kildare in 1874, Shackleton moved to London at ten and went south young: Robert Falcon Scott sent him home early from the 1901 Discovery expedition on health grounds, though not before the party reached 82° S. He returned with the Nimrod Expedition in 1907 and pushed to within 97 geographical miles of the pole — the largest leap forward in polar history — before turning back, later knighted by Edward VII. When Amundsen won the race in 1911, Shackleton pivoted to a trans-Antarctic crossing. The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launched in 1914, but Endurance was crushed and sank in the Weddell Sea in November 1915. What followed was survival: ice camp, lifeboats, Elephant Island, then Shackleton and five men crossing the Southern Ocean to fetch rescue. He sailed south again in 1921 and died of a heart attack off South Georgia at forty-seven, buried there at his wife's request. His rival Scott stayed famous for decades while Shackleton faded, only to be rediscovered late in the century as a model for leadership when everything goes wrong.