“For scientific leadership, give me Scott, for swift and efficient travel, Amundsen. But when you are in a hopeless situation, when you are seeing no way out, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton. Incomparable in adversity, he was the miracle worker who would save your life against all the odds and long after your number was up. The greatest leader that ever came on God’s earth, bar none.”

  Sir Raymond Priestley
  Member of the Nimrod expedition 1907-1909

This is an annotated Google Earth map of Shackleton’s South Pole expedition—a fantastic use of Google Earth.

You can preview it in the browser if you have the Google Earth browser plugin installed, or you can download the full package of files and folders for use with the desktop version of Google Earth (a much richer experience).