Ernest Shackleton (1874–1922) was an Anglo-Irish polar explorer.

Shackleton or Shackelton may also refer to:

People

  • Shackleton (surname), a list of people
  • Shackleton (musician), British musician and producer Sam Shackleton

Places

Antarctica

  • Shackleton Range, Coats Land, a mountain range
  • Mount Shackleton, Graham Land
  • Shackleton Glacier, Queen Maud Mountains
  • Shackleton Ice Shelf, Queen Mary Land
  • Shackleton Limestone, Ross Dependency, a Cambrian limestone formation
  • Shackleton Gap, South Georgia Island
  • Shackleton Valley, South Georgia Island

Communities

  • Shackleton, Western Australia, a town
  • Shackleton, Saskatchewan, Canada, a special service area, formerly a village
  • Shackelton, Georgia, United States, a ghost town
  • Shackleton, Zimbabwe, a village

Other places

  • Mount Shackleton (British Columbia), Canada
  • Shackleton fracture zone, an undersea fracture zone, oceanic ridge and fault in the Drake Passage
  • Shackleton (crater), a crater on the Moon

Ships

  • RRS Ernest Shackleton, a ship used by the British Antarctic Survey
  • RRS Shackleton, a ship of the British Antarctic Survey that served in the 1950s and 1960s

Arts and entertainment

Television

  • Shackleton (1983 TV series), a 1983 UK television miniseries on Ernest Shackleton
  • Shackleton (TV serial), a 2001 UK television miniseries on Ernest Shackleton, starring Kenneth Branagh
  • Shackleton: Death or Glory, a 2013 documentary series

Literature

  • Shackleton: Antarctic Odyssey, a 2014 graphic novel
  • Kate Shackleton, fictional character created by Frances Brody, protagonist of a series of crime novels

Other uses

  • Avro Shackleton, a Royal Air Force maritime patrol aircraft
  • Shackleton Energy Company, formed in 2007 with the goal to prepare the equipment and technologies necessary for mining the Moon

See also

  • The Shackeltons, a Pennsylvania-based rock group