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February 03, 2004

Shackleton Cross, Falkland Islands, 1998

Photograph by Maria Stenzel

A cross on South Georgia Island stands in honor of Ernest Shackleton, leader in an epic early 20th-century tale of Antarctic survival. Members of his expedition—not a man was lost—erected the monument after their rescue.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Shackleton: Epic of Survival," November 1998, National Geographic magazine)