HMS Protector returns to spot in Antarctica where Shackleton saved his men

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Sailors from HMS Protector have returned to the exact spot where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton saved his men nearly 100 years ago. A team form the ice survey ship carried out scientific research at Point Wild on Elephant Island - a remote and forbidding shore where Shackleton expedition party spent months awaiting rescue in 1916. Read full article

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New flash - Shackleton was a UK lie!!! ...Capatain El Shacklonos from the Argentine Marines is actually the person the article talks about. Argentina is opening a museum in his honour!! :)
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