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- Nicholas Shackleton - Sir Nicholas John Shackleton FRS (23 June 1937—24 January 2006) was a British geologist and climatologist who specialised in the Quaternary Period. He was the great-nephew of the explorer Ernest Shackleton and the son of the noted geologist Robert Millner Shackleton.
- Nimrod Expedition - British Imperial Antarctic Expedition or the Nimrod ExpeditionErnest Shackleton (1874-1922) - British Imperial Antarctic Expedition Nimrod , 1907 -1909 Cool Antartica website, accessed online december 29, 2006 (1908 - 1909) to Antarctica was led by Ernest Shackleton aboard the Nimrod with a crew that included George Buckley, Frank Wild, Eric Marshall, Edgeworth David, Jameson Adams, and Raymond Edward Priestley S. Murray-Smith, 'Priestley, Sir Raymond Edward (1886 - 1974)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Online Edition, Copyright 2006, updated continuously, ISSN 1833-7538, published by ...
- McNish Island - ... islands lying at the east side of Cheapman Bay on the south side of South Georgia. It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951-57, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Harry "McNeish" (1874-1930), carpenter on Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917.
- Mrs. Chippy - Mrs. Chippy was a cat which accompanied Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917, and along with the sled dogs was eventually shot after the expedition's ship, the Endurance, was destroyed when it became trapped in pack ice.
- Robert Clark (biologist) - Robert Selbie Clark (1882 – 1950) was the biologist on Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917.