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Return from Antarctica

Great Britain · Exploration / Exploration and Discovery. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1903Date range
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1903

Ernest Henry Shackleton3 February 1903

McMurdo Sound · Exploration / Exploration and Discovery

Returns from the southern journey weakened by illness and is later sent home on the relief ship Morning

Names involved

Ernest Henry Shackleton

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