The Bankwest branch in the town claimed to be the worlds smallest bank.
Directed by George Butler, the film was released in February 2001 and was narrated by Kevin Spacey.
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While the South Pole had already been discovered, people had yet to make the cross-continent trek on foot.
Shackleton (1982) (TV) as Raymond Shackleton
aka Icebound in the Antarctic (USA)
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The Fram and the Endurance, made famous in the polar expeditions of Amundsen and Shackleton, were the two strongest wooden ships ever constructed and were sheathed in greenheart to prevent them from being crushed by ice.
Docker was a substantial benefactor (£10,000) toward Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914–1916.
The ship, led by Shackleton, was the borrowed tug Yelcho, from Punta Arenas, Chile, commanded by Luis Pardo, which rescued all the men who had set out on the original expedition.
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage is a bestselling book written by Alfred Lansing, and was first published in 1959.
Sir James Key Caird (1837–1916), jute baron and philanthropist, sponsored Ernest Shackleton's Endurance Expedition
M&L is local in the sense it is established in Cobble Hill (a community close to Shawnigan Lake and the Kinsol), but is world renowned and has built many unique structures in Great Britain, received a commendation from Queen Elizabeth for its work in restoring Windsor Castle following the disastrous fire, and is working to restore the British explorer Shackleton's shack in the Antarctic and other unique projects.
Chumbawamba included a song entitled "Song for Len Shackleton" on their 2002 album Readymades
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Journalist Malcolm Hartley, who wrote a history of the Bradford team, wrote of Shackleton: "Apart from the adhesive ball control and breathtaking body swerve, Shack could hit a ball. His slender legs could crack the ball like a Bofors gun."
The ridge was visited and so named by the Texas Tech Shackleton Glacier Party (1964–65) because of the resemblance of the spurs to the horns of longhorn cattle.
He appeared in several other British television dramas, including Deacon Brodie (with Billy Connolly), Shackleton (as Frank Wild) with Kenneth Branagh, Omagh, Hornblower (with Ioan Gruffudd), The Street, Waking the Dead, Spooks, Silent Witness and New Tricks.
During the ill-fated Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance became trapped in the ice of the Weddell Sea, in January 1915.
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With Shackleton aboard the Yelcho sailed on 25 August from Punta Arenas, on the Strait of Magellan.
The theoretical advances and greatly improved data available by the 1970s enabled a "grand synthesis" to be made, best known from the 1976 paper Variations in the earth’s orbit: pacemaker of the ice ages (in Science), by J.D. Hays, Shackleton and John Imbrie, which is still very widely accepted today, and covers the MIS timescale and the causal effect of the orbital theory.
He has said that his favourite role of this period was the photographer Frank Hurley in the 2002 Channel 4 television film Shackleton, in which Kenneth Branagh played the title role.
In 2008 T++ followed Ricardo Villalobos in bridging the gap between minimal techno and dubstep, by remixing Shackleton's Death Is Not Final for the Skull Disco label.
In addition to his reputation in the scientific world, Shackleton was highly respected by many musicians, and a friend to many who studied at Cambridge, including Christopher Hogwood.
Not only is Paul's Australian adventure a pinnacle for sea kayaking, it should eventually be recognized as one of the great small voyages of recent history along with those of Slocum, Shackleton and Franz Romer.
Due to ice conditions, Shackleton was unable to reach King Edward VII Land, and established his base in McMurdo Sound.
Sam Cardon is a composer whose credits include 15 large-format films:"Titans Of The Ice Age", "Mummies", "Mystic India", Texas, The Big Picture, "Forces Of Nature", Lewis and Clark,The Legendary Journeys, Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure, Mysteries of Egypt, Olympic Glory, Whales, Building the Dream at Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California; Treasure of the Gods at Zion National Park, Utah and The Secret of San Francisco at Pier 39.
Heteractis malu (Haddon & Shackleton, 1893), also known as the delicate sea anemone and white sand anemone
The most recent addition to the Library is the Shackleton Memorial Library, which in 1999 won a regional award from the Royal Institute of British Architects.
The human element of the project includes the development of an "industrial astronaut corps" that would select for individuals who have many of the characteristics of previous explorers—such as Ernest Shackleton, Edmund Hillary and Lewis and Clark—"bold vision, determination, independence, leadership, execution and capability necessary to undertake a non-terrestrial industrial venture. Those human qualities are very necessary" to what Shackleton intends to do.
The policy of the government of Canada on the funding of expeditions changed with the advent of a new Prime Minister, Arthur Meighen, who withdrew support from Shackleton's proposal .
Russell's other credits include The Little Prince, Lady Chatterley's Lover, The Return of the Soldier, The Razor's Edge, Hope and Glory, The Bride, Yanks, Gulliver's Travels, I Dreamed of Africa, and Shackleton.
The 1916 publication re-ignited interest in the flyaway islands, and explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, when planning the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition of 1921-1922, proclaimed as one of his goals the rediscovery of Tuanaki.