Shackleton achieved 89 degrees S, which is about 66 miles from the South Pole.
1914
Sir Ernest Shackleton decided to attempt to cross Antarctica via the south pole.
he came 112 miles away from the geographic south pole.
He got to the south pole.
they used a certain transportation
horses
he dicovered that he was not first to reach the south pole.
Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922) was a British explorer who commanded three expeditions to the Antarctic (1907-09, 1914-17, 1921-22), during which the South Magnetic Pole was located in 1909.
compass and nothing else
Sir Ernest Shackleton dreamed of being the first person to reach the South Pole but his dream never came true, as Roald Amundsen beat him to it. However, Shackleton went on to lead an ambitious Antarctic expedition in 1914, aiming to be the first to cross the continent via the South Pole.
Ernest Shackleton left from London to go to the South Pole for his antarctic expedition on the first of august in 1914. He and his crue members were stuck in the bitterly coldness for almost 2 years.
Sir Earnest Shackleton trekked to the pole and turned back at 89 degrees S -- never making it to the South Pole. This was accomplished during the Discovery Expedition in 1901-1904.