Shackleton Reaches Magnetic South Pole
On January 16, 1909, explorers Douglas Mawson and Alistair Mackay David Edworth, led by Ernest Shackleton, were able to locate the south magnetic pole-southernmost point reached to date, during an expedition to Antarctica. The first of three trips led by the Anglo-Irish to the frozen continent was named Nimrod expedition, known to history as the …