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Tom Crean was the indestructible farmer's son from Kerry who sailed on three major expeditions to the unknown Antarctic over a century ago. He was among the few men who served with both Captain Robert Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton. He spent longer on the ice than either and outlived…
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Roald Amudsen, Robert F. Scott, and Ernest Shackleton are perhaps the most well-known names of Antarctic explorers, with expedition leader Amundsen and four companions being the very first humans to reach the South Pole (in December 1911). Scott and his companions reached the South Pole a month later (January 1912) but they all perished on the return trip to their base on the Antarctic shelf. Shackleton never ever made it onto the continent, his ship, the Endurance, having been caught in the ice before even reaching the Antarctic landmass (in 1915). But far less well-known are the stories of their…
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