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Ernest Shackleton

Anglo-Irish polar explorer

1874 - 1922

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His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2024). Ernest Shackleton is the 44th most popular explorer (up from 52nd in 2024), the 30th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 26th in 2019) and the most popular Irish Explorer.

Ernest Shackleton was an explorer who led three expeditions to the Antarctic. He is most famous for his 1914-1917 expedition where he led 27 men on a ship called the Endurance to Antarctica, but their ship became stuck in ice and they were forced to abandon it and make a treacherous journey across the ice to reach safety.

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Of the 8 Explorers born in Ireland, Ernest Shackleton ranks first.

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Ernest Shackleton's biography appears in 63 language editions of Wikipedia — more than 93% of all Explorers.

Feb 15

Ernest Shackleton shares a February 15 birthday with Galileo Galilei, Louis XV of France, and Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor.

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Among Explorers

Among explorers, Ernest Shackleton ranks 44 out of 498. Before him are Francisco de Orellana, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Juan Ponce de León, Daniel Boone, Jacob Roggeveen, and Ingólfr Arnarson. After him are Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Martin Behaim, William Clark, and Samuel de Champlain.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Ernest Shackleton ranks 21. Before him are Carl Bosch, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Lou Henry Hoover, Lucy Maud Montgomery, António Egas Moniz, and Gertrude Stein. After him are August Krogh, Nikolai Berdyaev, Alexander Kolchak, Talaat Pasha, G. K. Chesterton, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Among people deceased in 1922, Ernest Shackleton ranks 10. Before him are Charles I of Austria, Fredrik Bajer, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, Enver Pasha, Erich von Falkenhayn, and Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. After him are Djemal Pasha, Hermann Rorschach, Walther Rathenau, Albert I, Prince of Monaco, Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont, and Ernest Solvay.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Ernest Shackleton ranks 30 out of 549. Before him are Pierce Brosnan (1953), Grace O'Malley (1530), J. D. Bernal (1901), W. B. Yeats (1865), G. E. M. Anscombe (1919), and Anne Bonny (1702). After him are John Field (1782), Kevin Farrell (1947), Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852), George Francis FitzGerald (1851), Columbanus (540), and Michael D. Higgins (1941).

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Among Explorers In Ireland

Among explorers born in Ireland, Ernest Shackleton ranks 1. After him are Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie (1810), Edward Bransfield (1785), Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie (1815), Henry Kellett (1806), Tom Crean (1877), Robert McClure (1807), and Robert O'Hara Burke (1821).

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