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Port Lyttlelton in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Port Lyttlelton in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

1 records1 event labels1 people1908–1908

Historical events in Port Lyttlelton

1908

1 January 1908
South Pole
Ernest Henry Shackleton · Exploration and Discovery

Shackletons ship, the Nimrod, leaves Port Lyttlelton for the South Pole

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