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When photographer Frank Hurley signed on to document British explorer Ernest Shackleton’s expedition to the South Pole in 1914, he knew he’d be capturing some of the earliest images of...
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Ernest Shackleton Pictures of the Endurance Expedition Page 1 - The journey to Antarctica and into the the Weddell Sea, the besetting of the Endurance, Winter 1915, the crushing and loss of the ship.
Browse 741 ernest shackleton photos photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images. British polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton leaves London on the converted Norwegian sealer 'Quest' on his final voyage to the Antarctic with the...
- August 1, 1914: Endurance Departs London
- December 5, 1914: South Georgia Island
- December 7, 1914: Entering Pack Ice
- December 1914 - January 1915: Through The Ice
- January 19, 1915: Trapped
- October 1915 - April 1916: Camp on Drifting Ice
- April 24 - May 10, 1916: The Voyage of The James Caird
- October 8, 1916: Return to Britain
On leaving England, the Endurancemade ports of call at Madeira, Montevideo and Buenos Aires, where she was joined by Shackleton himself; he had delayed his departure to attend to business. Here, Shackleton replaced four unsatisfactory members of the crew before heading for South Georgia Island. The ship's company included 28 men, 69 Canadian sledgi...
South Georgia, at the gateway to the Antarctic Circle, was the Endurance's last port of call before she set out for the treacherous Weddell Sea. The island was inhabited only on the eastern coast by the Norwegians who manned the whaling stations of Grytviken, Stromness and Husvik. From the whalers, Shackleton learned that the ice conditions in the ...
The Enduranceset sail from South Georgia at 8:45 a.m. on December 5, 1914; on the evening of December 7, she encountered the first pack ice. For the next six weeks, the ship dodged and weaved between loose floes, or--particularly under the watch of her high-spirited captain, Frank Worsley--rammed through them. Judging from their surviving diaries, ...
On January 14, 1915, only days before disaster struck, Antarctica presented the men with a day of special majesty, preserved in the diary keepers' words and Frank Hurley's photographs. Henry McNish, the gruff carpenter, was less impressed.
On January 18, only one day short of her destination, the Enduranceentered dense pack ice. Reluctant to use the enormous steam power required to push through it, Shackleton and Captain Worsley waited for an opening. In the night, however, the ice closed around the ship. A northeasterly gale wind arose, compressing the ice tightly against the contin...
By October, ceaseless pressure from pack ice led the crew to abandon the Endurance. With the ruin of their ship looming behind them, the men set up "Ocean Camp," a makeshift camp on the ice. Each man was issued warm clothing and a sleeping bag: Shackleton quietly ensured that the warmer reindeer skin bags went to the sailors, while the officers too...
In April 1916, as Shackleton and five other men took to the sea in a tiny lifeboat, their only hope for survival was to land at the island of South Georgia, some 800 miles away. Few challenges posed by the James Caird journey were more daunting--or critical--than navigation. This task fell to Frank Worsley, the captain of the lost Endurance, who ha...
The Endurance expedition dispersed on October 8, 1916. Most of the men returned to Britain and, as World War I still raged on, almost all entered into the service. Alf Cheetham and Tim McCarthy--the latter able-seaman of the Caird--were both killed in the line of duty. After the war, those who survived picked up their old lives. Apart from occasion...
Mar 9, 2022 · 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...
Portrait of Sir Ernest Shackleton housed in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London VIEW INFO Quest Expedition
