Ernest Shackleton's 1907-09 expedition aboard the Nimrod built this hut at Cape Royds.
Although unlucky in it's attempt to get to the pole, the expedition did reach
the furthest southerly point, locate the magnetic south pole, and climb Mt. Erebus.
Of his failure to reach the pole, Shackleton wrote to his wife:
"I thought, dear, that you would rather have a live ass than a dead lion."
