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Ernest Henry Shackleton Ernest Henry Shackleton was born at Kilkea House, County Kildare, on February 15, At the age of 33, Henry left his farm to Trinity College in Dublin and started a new career in medicine. In 1884, Dr. Shackleton crossed the water and settled in England. It was in suburban London that Ernest Shackleton spent the remainder of his boyhood years. Shackleton with Scott and Dr. Edward Wilson trekked south towards the South Pole in They used dogs, but failed to understand how to handle them. They were 480 statute miles from the Pole. Shackleton developed scurvy on the return trip and Dr. Wilson was suffering from snow blindness at intervals.

Weddell Seals Weddell seals belong to a group of seals known as Phocidae or true seals. The most commonly known example of the group is the harp seal. Weddell seals are large animals. Both adult males and females are about 3 m long and weigh around 400 to 500 kg. The head is small relative to body size and the colour is usually dappled grey and black on the back with a mostly white under-belly. They eat fish, squid, octopus, krill, and other small crustaceans.

Mosses Only a small number of moss species are found in Antarctica. Extensive fields occur in a few places on this continent and these are rarely more than 100 mm deep, even in the most favourable areas where there is shelter and plenty of water. Short moss turf and cushion moss is found most frequently in sandy and gravelly soils. No extensive peat formations are to be found. Mosses, like lichens, gather in colonies which make them possible to collect and retain more water. They also lose less by evaporation and show a marked ability to use water rapidly whenever it becomes available. Mosses have also become well adapted to the almost continuous light during the long days of a polar summer. One Antarctic moss, Bryum argenteum, produces more energy by photosynthesis in low light at 5°C than it does at 15°C, or higher. Photosynthesis can start within a few hours of thawing after a prolonged period of freezing, and almost immediately following short periods.