South Pole

Intro: What characteristics come together to form a great leader? Throughout the novel, Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World, Sir Ernest Shackleton portrayed many key characteristics on his expedition across the Antarctic that demonstrated good leadership. On an expedition that was as dangerous and long as his had been, Shackleton had no other choice than to be a good leader for his crew. Although there were many, three of the most important characteristics that Shackleton contributed to being a

1.0 Introduction: Shackleton, who died in 1922 at the age of around forty-seven, certainly not achieved his objective of traversing the continent of Antarctica but remembered these days for something more astonishing. In recent years, polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton has been celebrated through books, autobiography, films, and a major museum display (Lagace, 2004). Here this satiated journal attempts to critically explore and relate his leadership chronicle, activities on the ice that have a

the North Pole. However, after failing his mission, as Robert Peary had beat him, he began racing for “...the most prestigious prize the world of exploration still offered: the South Pole” (Alexander). With this, he gathered his men and headed out for one of the most obscure areas of the world—preparing to enter a whole new world. And after suffering through many hardships and complications on his adventure, Amundsen finally achieved his goal of being the first to reach the South Pole. Thus, with

The Earth’s magnetic field The discovery of the Earth’s magnetic field Over 2000 years ago, the Chinese discovered that lodestone, a naturally magnetised iron ore, would align itself in a north-south direction. Hundreds of years later, they discovered that their “compasses” didn’t point true north and in fact that this position changed with time. The compass was first used for navigation in the 11th-12th century, only arriving in Europe towards the end of this period. Then, in 1600, William

Roald Amundsen is known as one of the most successful arctic explorers, having been the first person to lead expeditions that reached the North and South Pole. Roald was born on July 16th, 1872, near Oslo, Norway. He was the 4th son born to his parents Hanna Sahlqvist and jens Amundsen. Roald had promised his mom to become a doctor and began studying medicine when he was 15, but dropped out at age 21 when his mother died. He then began his journey at sea. He was successful since the beginning, as

On Christmas eve the elves were all wrapping presents and Santa was looking over all the bad kids and good kids, also his son mike was watching the elves. They were pretty busy because Santa was behind on Christmas chores. When all of a sudden . . . The Alarm goes of in the present area. Quickly Santa calls Mike to get down to the Present area. Santa and Mike find that they have some bad elves. The elves commanded Santa to give them the secret password to get into the secret door, but Santa

Last Christmas up at the North Pole, five before Christmas, everyone was busy trying to get ready. Charlie was getting all of the elves in line finishing up the decorations and rehearsing. He was the head the elf’s assistant. He was talking to Ginger when Peppermint busted in the workshop with three reindeer. “The toys are missing and the sleigh is broken!” exclaimed Peppermint. Charlie went with the elves and talked to Santa. “What if use one of the iPhones to find the toys?” asked Ginger. “Thats

Many ancient civilizations had their own beliefs about the stars and the universe. Some examples of these intelligent civilizations were the Ancient Babylonians, Middle Eastern civilizations, Central American civilizations, Ancient Chinese, and the Ancient Greeks. The Ancient Babylonians studied patterns on Venus which were later continued by Galileo and Copernicus. People from the Middle East, Central America, and China watched the skies and made many observations and predictions of movement in

in 1850; which was the first wave of immigrants to come to America. People wanted refuge from the Poland-Russian War. “Under Russian and Prussian rule, European Poles could not teach Polish in the schools, practice their religion, or rally for Polish independence”

last five decades one of the most noticeable facts is that the temperature raised to 1.4 degree F (0.8 degree Celsius) the effects of this warming changes are notice worldwide the most alarming fact is the melting of the sea ice on the north pole, and south pole since 1870 to now the sea levels rise around 8 inches jeopardizing places like New York, Florida and New Orleans, they could go under sea levels this change in temperatures also affect