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Oct 21, 2020 · The discovery of Ernest Shackleton's ship at the bottom of Antarctica's Weddell Sea recalls a grueling expedition when men endured entrapment, hunger, frigid weather, angry seas—and near...
Mar 13, 2022 · Incredibly well preserved at a depth of almost two miles, the ship is little changed from the day in November 1914 when it finally sank beneath the ice. Endurance became embedded in ice while ...
Mar 9, 2022 · The Endurance Expedition was a British mission to cross the Antarctic on foot in 1914-17. Launched in August 1914, the expedition became one of the most famous survival stories of all time...
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Mar 30, 2022 · The story still resonates with readers more than a century later: the sinking of Endurance amid the pack ice; the bone-rattling conditions on Elephant Island; the improbable 800-mile journey...
- Ernest Shackleton’s First South Pole Expeditions. Ernest Shackleton was born in Kilkea, Ireland in 1874. When his family relocated to London, a 16-year-old Shackleton joined the merchant navy, dashing his father’s hopes that he would follow in his footsteps as a doctor.
- The Endurance: Through The Ice. On Saturday, Aug. 1, 1914, Germany declared war on Russia, and in a little over four weeks time, the first battle of World War I would commence.
- Nine Months Trapped In The Ice. The crew of the Endurance didn’t know it, but they were mere days away from disaster. On January 18, the ship sailed into dense pack ice.
- Abandoning The Endurance. As the months passed, the ice slowly crushed the ship. On October 27, almost a year to the day since they’d departed Buenos Aires, the men were forced to abandon the Endurance.
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Mar 9, 2022 · Aided by Clydeside magnate William Beardmore, Shackleton put together the Nimrod Expedition which saw a Scot, Alistair Mackay, become one of the first three men to reach the magnetic South Pole. Shackelton was knighted on his return to Britain and began canvassing support for another expedition.
Mar 9, 2022 · Many of the men aboard Shackleton’s Endurance had no previous experience of polar expeditions. Here are 4 of the most notable crewmembers to accompany Shackleton on his Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Frank Hurley Hurley was the official expedition photographer, and his photographs of the Endurance stuck in the ice have since become ...
