Standing in a niche outside the Royal Geographical Society since 1932, the explorer looks reminiscent of a penguin in his Antarctic exploration attire. Shackleton was knighted after his 1907–9 expedition to the Antarctic, which took him and his team further south than anyone had gone before, or indeed would for a further three years. He is best remembered, however, for his later attempt to cross the Antarctic from sea to sea in 1914–17: the expedition crew had to abandon their ship, Endurance, and faced an epic struggle to reach the relative hospitality of South Georgia – the island on which Shackleton is buried, after dying on a fifth Antarctic exploration in 1922.
Shackleton by C Sergeant Jagger