Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton ('Men of the Day. No. 1192. "The South Pole."') NPG D45510

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by 'KITE'

Polar explorer. Born at Kilkea, Ireland, Shackleton was a junior officer on Discovery on the National Antarctic Expedition under Captain Scott in 1901. His own expedition in Nimrod (1907-9) succeeded in reaching the South Magnetic Pole and scaling Mount Erebus. In 1914 he commanded the Trans-Antarctic Expedition in Endurance. When the ship was crushed by ice, using sledges and boats he guided its company 200 miles to safety. He and five companions then sailed a further 800 miles in a small boat to South... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.