Shackleton's Leadership skills as seen on the Nimrod expedition, and the achievements of the Nimrod expedition 1907-09.

• Main Author: Ellis, Jane
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: University of Canterbury 2007
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Shackleton; Nimrod; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10092/13949

The centenary of one of the lesser known of the ‘Heroic Era’ Antarctic expeditions, Ernest Shackleton’s Nimrod Expedition is in 2007-9. The intention of this review is to consider two aspects of this expedition: the leadership skills displayed by Shackleton, and the achievements of the expedition. I...