Shackleton Centenary Expedition
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Hello there! My name is Tim Fright. I am the great great nephew of Frank Wild - one of the original team members who took part in the Nimrod expedition in 1908 and got to within 97 miles of the South Pole, alongside Shackleton, Adams, and Marshall.
Whilst it may seem a tenuous family link, it was the best I could manage to become part of the team without actually making stuff up! My job at the moment is to become a fully fledged Webmaster, a daunting task for someone who is unsure what "Webmastering" actually involves or entails, but as Shackleton himself once said: "difficulties are just things to overcome, after all."
Over the coming months, I'm looking to add a variety of links to and from the site so that people can use this website as a base for all their Shackleton and Antarctica-based browsing. I'm also looking to add a few features that will hopefully make the website stand out a bit more:
- I've noticed the International Polar Year people have a layer that you can download and apply to Google Earth, I think that something like that for the Nimrod Expedition would be pretty cool.
- A clock showing what the time is in London, and what the time is at the site of the start of the expedition would be interesting.
- I think that a kids section could be pretty fun, and tie in with other sites out there that cater to a similiar audience with a similiar passion for all things Shackleton and Antarctic.
Finally, I actively welcome further suggestions, so please get in contact if you have any other ideas that you think could be good/ useful/ interesting.
The SCE launches their fundraising drive at a special evening to be held at Christie's on September 26th.
We are very grateful to both Christies and Atlantic Productions for their kind support in hosting and creating the presentation. That evening there will also be a viewing for the annual Christie's Polar Sale, and the Bloomsbury Books launch of Kelly Tyler-Lewis The Lost Men, a strongly recommended new book about the hard challenges faced by Shackleton's Ross Sea team of 1914.
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Get a capsule view of who we are, where we're going and why we're doing this by reading our brochure.
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Sir Ernest Shackleton is widely known as one of the most inspirational leaders of the twentieth century. The Shackleton Foundation is a new charitable trust.
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The Shackleton Centenary Expedition, c/o The Lansdowne Club, 9 Fitzmaurice Place, London W1J 5JD
"Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all." - EHS 1909
