Talk:Ernest Shackleton
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The historical images are rather dark. If only for the sake of clarity I think they should be brightened up a bit lot. Lee M 01:54, 2 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Not only are they dark, the image at the bottom is not of Shackleton at all, but rather depicts the last expedition of Robert Falcon Scott. The image was taken January 18, 1912 and is of Oates, Scott and Evans (standing); and Bowers and Wilson (sitting). --Gabbe 18:22, Jan 16, 2004 (UTC)
Has the picture issue been resolved? Lisiate 21:16, 12 May 2004 (UTC)
- It looks like it has been - the offending picture has been removed. Mark Richards 22:05, 12 May 2004 (UTC)
Does anybody agree with me that the most recent edit about Lennard Bickel's book is superfluous and possibly not appropriate ? No Guru 19:34, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- I agree that it doesn't work. Certainly the topic would fit here, but not in the form of a book review cut-&-paste. Joyous 02:45, Jul 22, 2004 (UTC)
- Since no one has objected to the idea in lo, these many months, I've removed the offending paragraph. Joyous 00:54, Mar 16, 2005 (UTC)
Miles
I fixed the error in the distance where the article said
"reached 88°23'S: a point only 156 km (98 miles) from the South Pole"
correcting that distance to 180 km.
I'm sure many of the readers of this article could go out and find hundreds of sources on the internet, and in printed books, to support the figure that was there (though most of them will say 97 "miles" rather than 98).
All I can say is that people who don't know what "miles" are in this context should not be using them. Since they are the root of the problem, I omitted them completely from this particular measurement.
Hint: look at that latitude. Subtract it from 90°0'. Convert the degrees and minutes to minutes of arc. Does that number look vaguely familiar? Now, what does that mean with regard to these miles? Gene Nygaard 02:06, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)