Ernest Shackleton's footsteps: Antarctic hero's cabin is restored and open to visitors

Explorer's cabin had been used as a shed in Norway for most of a century — but now it's been brought back to his Irish birthplace and meticulously restored

Ernest Shackleton on board the Endurance in 1914. The Irish Antarctic explorer died on board the Quest in 1922 — now his cabin from that final voyage has been brought back to his birthplace and meticulously restored and is open to visitors. Picture: Frank Hurley/SPRI

For years it lay hidden from the world, being used as a garden shed to store tools and DIY kit. 

But now the ship’s cabin where Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton died has finally been unveiled to the world at its new home in the explorer’s native Co Kildare.