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Sarah Ward

Restoration team work to save remote ‘Shackleton Villa’ in South Georgia

It took a week by boat to arrives on King Edward Point on South Georgia island (SGHT/PA) -

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 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.

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