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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.
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.