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The Shackleton Epic Expedition - launch at Dulwich Friday 24 April at 7.00

JCS Members' Evening and Dinner Friday 8 May 2009

News from Antarctic Circle: Elephant Island and Frank Wild

Dictionary of Falklands Biography is now ready

The National Maritime Museum

Sat 4 April BBC2 8.40 p.m. 'Timewatch - 'In Shackleton's Footsteps'

RGS, Tues 7 April at 7.00 (free entry): a memorial tribute to polar pioneer Sir Wally Herbert

Shackleton - an Irishman to the core

Ernest Shackleton: the Irish background

Latest edition of the JCS Journal widely welcomed

Shackleton's Nimrod Party descendants reach South Pole

Hurley's descendant to ski-sail across the Greenland icecap

Members' Evening and Dinner, Autumn 2008

A word from the Society's Chairman

Intrepid duo reaches the Pole

Birlinn Books reissue 'Shackleton's Boat Journey'

A guided tour of HMS 'Endurance' in Portsmouth

The Perils of Antarctica: Ill-health and Exhaustion

The Interchange Shackleton South Pole Expedition

Shackleton Centenary Expedition

James Caird visits the Whyte & Mackay Earls Court Boat Show

Famous Polar cruise ship MV 'Explorer' sinks off the Antarctic Peninsula

Annual General Meeting and Members' Evening

The Fuchs Foundation launches its appeal on 24 Oct

Hubert Wilkins: Birlinn Books' new Biography of an intrepid Polar Pioneer

Bonhams to stage polar paintings exhibition, 27 May to 15 Jun 2007

Read Shackleton's book 'South' live on the web

Trapped in the Ice: major Shackleton Exhibition tours Spain during 2007-8, visiting Barcelona this autumn

The James Caird Society 'FORUM' takes off

James Caird Society Journal No. 3 published

Answer the Question !

'Endurance' Video at the French Shackleton Exhibition

Shackleton Exhibition at the French Museum of Maritime History

Shackleton and close comrade's heirs launch 'Shackleton Centenary Expedition 2008'

The Society's Chairman

News from a Relation and Admirer of Shackleton

Shackleton Crater on the Moon

The Story of Shackleton's 'Aurora' and its long-suffering crew - by an Eye-witness

Antarctic Sledge Dog Memorial Fund

The Shackleton and Beardmore Glaciers, and Mount Shackleton

Pilot Pardo, a Reluctant Hero

The 'Yelcho': a name celebrated in Maritime History

Punta Arenas, the city in Chile where Shackleton planned two bids to rescue his trapped men

News about 'The Skipper' : Captain Frank Worsley

'Zaz' heads South: The President's journey to Chile to honour two brave men

Trapped for four months: Elephant Island, where Shackleton's hardy comrades were marooned

The young Shackleton, growing up in Dulwich and Sydenham

A wealth of Antarctic colour photographs

The strange, overawing world of Glaciers

View a slideshow ot Sir Ernest Shackleton and three other legendary Polar Explorers

Blue Plaque to Shackleton in his home town, Eastbourne

Maps of the Antarctic

An unusual Boot with a Shackleton Connection

The James Caird - as a cartoon

Sir James Weddell, Discoverer of the Weddell Sea

The 'Shackleton Cabin'

Celebrating the Centenary of Shackleton's 'Nimrod'

Younger Members: The 'James Cairders' take wing

View some remarkable snapshots of the interior of Shackleton's Hut

Shackleton's Way - The Bestseller

Posters of Shackleton's 'Endurance' Expedition

More dramatic photos of Antarctica

Following Shackleton, Worsley and Crean over the South Georgia Mountains

'Virtual Shackleton' Display at the Scott-Polar website

Leading Antarctic Explorers: Shirase, De Gerlache, Nordenskjöld, Filchner, Wilkins

Channel 4: another invaluable outline of Shackleton's life and deeds

A chance to have your say on all things Shackleton

Antarctica - Cruise and Travel Guide

Belgian interest in Shackleton and things Antarctic

Natural History Museum's Antarctic Conservation Website

Shackleton's dogs commemorated on Stamps

New Company takes its name from the James Caird

"The Boss": a version of the Shackleton story for Children

Planned Search for the Wreck of 'Endurance'

Animated Version of the 'Endurance' story

Carl Anton Larsen - a Remarkable Forerunner of Shackleton

Shackleton Schools

Some useful notes on Shackleton's 'Endurance' crew

Book on the 'Nimrod' Expedition

The 'James Caird' on display at the National Maritime Museum, Cornwall

Shackleton Scholarship Fund

Shackleton: An Irishman in Antarctica

Shackleton's Granddaughter: an Interview with Alexandra Shackleton

Update Notes by General Patrick Fagan, JCS Chairman 2000-2006

Shackleton Plaque in Grytviken Mariners' Church

Collecting some precious and unusual Shackleton Memorabilia

To the Pole in a wheechair: the brilliant “Pole2Pole” Expedition

The late William Mills, a loyal ally to Shackleton and Scott enthusiasts

Frank Shackleton, the explorer's colourful but unreliable brother

Whaling Stations on South Georgia

Germany and Polar/Antarctic Research

LIST OF SHACKLETON SITES

ARCHIVE DETAILS OF A SIGNIFICANT POLAR SEMINAR

LINCOLN ELLSWORTH'S TRANSANTARCTIC FLIGHT

LIFE BELOW LARSEN

Zaz in Action : Some recent Presidential Outings

Listen to the Voice of Sir Ernest Shackleton

James Caird on display at the Earls Court Boat Show