Ernest Shackleton, a member of Wooster Lodge No. 79 and Siloam Lodge 32 in Connecticut, was a pioneer Antarctic explorer. During an expedition in January, 1915, Shackleton's ship "Endurance" became locked in an ice floe. Eventually the pressure of the ice crushed the ship's hull, rendering it useless except for shelter and provisions. Shackleton and his crew set up camp on the huge chunk of ice as it wandered aimlessly in the sea until this date in 1916, when the men spotted land and rowed their lifeboats to the safety of Antarctica's Elephant Island. All had survived after nearly 16 months of isolation. Shackleton's ability to maintain calm, ration supplies and care for the men during the ordeal led one reporter to call him, "the greatest leader that ever came upon God's earth, bar none."
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