The scientific instrument was fixed to the wall of Shackleton s private cabin on the ship R.Y.S Quest - where he died in 1922 during an expedition to the Antarctic.
Sir Ernest Shackleton, born in 1874, was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who went on three British expeditions to the southern pole - two of which he led.
Ernest Shackleton, Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who attempted to reach the South Pole. Best known for his 1914–16 expedition, in which his ship, Endurance, was crushed by pack ice, Shackleton and his crew endured months of hardship, including a harrowing voyage to South Georgia Island, before being rescued.
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