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Shackleton, Sir Ernest
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Sir Ernest Shackleton - South
When I look back at those days, I have no doubt that providence guided us, not only across those snow fields, but across the storm white sea that separated Elephant island from our landing place on South Georgia. I know that during that long and racking march of 36 hours over the unnamed mountains and glaciers of South Georgia it seemed to me often that we were four, not three