Mezue nkebi ahịrịokwu a: A mụrụ Shackleton na Kilkea, County Kildare, Ireland, ezinụlọ ya bụ́ ndị England na Ireland kwagakwara Sydenham nke dị n'ebe ndịda London mgbe ọ dị afọ iri. Ahụmahụ mbụ Shackleton nwere n'ógbè ndị dị n'ụsọ oké osimiri bụ mgbe ọ bụ onyeisi ndị agha nke atọ n'ụgbọ njem "Discovery" nke Captain Robert Falcon Scott mere n'afọ 1901 ruo 1904, bụ́ nke e si n'ebe ahụ zipụ ya n'oge n'ihi ihe ndị metụtara ahụ ike ya, mgbe ya na ndị ibe ya bụ́ Scott na Edward Adrian Wilson setịpụrụ ihe ndekọ ọhụrụ n'ebe ndịda site n'ịgafe na latitude 82°S.
"Nimrod" njem nke 1907<unk>1909, ya na ndị ibe ya atọ guzobere ihe ndekọ ọhụrụ Ebe kachasị anya na South latitude na 88 ° S, naanị 97 kilomita (112 kilomita iwu ma ọ bụ kilomita 180) site na South Pole, ọganihu kachasị ukwuu na mpaghara ahụ n'akụkọ ihe mere eme. Ọzọkwa, ndị òtù nke ìgwè ya rịgoro Ugwu Erebus, nke bụ́ ugwu mgbawa kasị akpa ike n'Antarctic. Mgbe Shackleton lọtara, Eze Edward nke Asaa nyere ya ọkwá ka onye na-agba ịnyịnya n'ihi ihe ndị a ọ rụzuru.