EXPLORER’S LONELY GRAVE
MONUMENT TO SHACKLETON By Cable. —Press Association.—Copyright LONDON, Thursday. The material for a tomb to be erected on the grave of the late Sir Ernest Shackleton, the Antarctic explorer, left Barry Dock in eight giant packing cases aboard the collier Harpon. An imposing granite monument will be placed on his grave in South Georgia, where he was buried in 1922, after an attack of influenza, as evidence of Lady Shackleton’s love for her gallant husband. —A. and N.Z. South Georgia, a lonely island in the South Atlantic Ocean, is 800 miles east of the Falkland Islands.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 116, 6 August 1927, Page 9
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