Frank Wild was an Antarctica explorer with the Nimrod Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton. Nimrod Expedition (1908 - 1909) to Antartica was led by Ernest Shackleton aboard the Nimrod with a crew that included George Buckley, Frank Wild, Eric Marshall and Jameson Adams. ... Portrait of Ernest Henry Shackleton Captain Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton CVO, OBE, RNR (February 15, 1874 – January 5, 1922) was an Anglo-Irish explorer, now chiefly remembered for his Antarctic expedition of 1914–1916 in the ship Endurance. ...
John Robert Francis Wild (born in 1873 in Skelton, Yorkshire to † 19 August 1939 in Johannesburg South Africa), known as FrankWild, was an explorer on several expeditions to Antarctica including:
As second-in-command, Wild was left in charge of 21 men on desolate Elephant Island as Shackleton and a crew of 5 made their epic rescue mission to South Georgia aboard a lifeboat.
Point Wild on Elephant Island is named after FrankWild, with a monument dedicated to the Chilean captain who rescued him and his men.
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