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Oct 21, 2020 · The goal of expedition leader Shackleton, who had twice fallen short—once agonizingly so—of reaching the South Pole, was to establish a base on Antarctica’s Weddell Sea coast.
Mar 13, 2022 · On February 24, 1915, with winter advancing, the expedition decided to hunker down in the hope of breaking free when summer rolled around again. Ernest Shackleton's Endurance ship found in ...
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13 hours ago · In the annals of Antarctic exploration, few stories capture the imagination as vividly as that of Sir Ernest Shackleton‘s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917). While Shackleton‘s leadership has been justly celebrated, the remarkable story of his crew—the unsung heroes of the Endurance expedition—deserves to be told in greater ...
Jan 18, 2022 · When explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew set out for Antarctica on the Endurance in 1914, they had no idea their journey would become one of history’s greatest epics of survival. After sea...
- Ranulph Fiennes
Mar 9, 2022 · Planet Earth. Antarctica. Endurance Expedition: Shackleton's Antarctic survival story. References. By Tom Garner. Contributions from. Timothy Williamson. published 9 March 2022. The...
- Tom Garner
In the event, the main expedition never set foot on continental Antarctica. The expedition managed to survive the loss of their ship in the middle of the Antarctic pack ice at a time when there was no chance of contacting the outside world, let alone of being rescued.
It was in 1911 that Shackleton set a new goal—to cross Antarctica from sea to sea via the South Pole (which had recently been reached by Roald Amundsen). Shackleton leaned on his prestigious and previous successes in order to fund the expedition, raising £10,000 from the British government (close to £1,000,000 or $1,312,000 today).
