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The £3m Race to Save Explorer Shackleton's Villa
The restoration preserves the villa where Shackleton planned the rescue; the South Georgia Heritage Trust raised over £2 million for this project, creating a digital museum.
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Restoration team work to save remote ‘Shackleton Villa’ in South Georgia
The historic buildings at a whaling station were built in about 1906 by Norwegian carpenters, but have fallen into disrepair. A team of carpenters are working to restore the remote wooden villa where Sir Ernest Shackleton planned a heroic rescue of his crew, who were stranded after their ship sank in the Antarctic. Shackleton, one of Britain’s most renowned explorers, lost his ship the Endurance after it was crushed by ice in 1915 during the Imp…
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