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Oct 16, 2018 · SOUTH:THE STORY OF SHACKLETON’S LAST EXPEDITION (1914-1917), authored by Ernest Shackleton, is a 219-page book about an expedition to Antarctica that gets waylaid by an ice floe that traps the ship and then destroys it. The ship, which has sails and also a motor, is called THE ENDURANCE. The book was written by the captain of this ship. DIAGRAMS.
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May 15, 2019 · Hailed as "a rousing read" by The New York Times, this breathtaking chronicle of Antarctic exploration was written by expedition leader Sir Ernest Shackleton. In 1914 he and his 28-man crew boarded the ship Endurance and sailed away to do something no one had ever done: to traverse and chart the mostly unknown territory of the South Pole.
The expedition recorded many firsts, including climbing the world’s southernmost volcano, Mt Erebus. In late 1908, Shackleton led a party of four in an attempt to be the first to reach the Geographic South Pole. After man-hauling for two-and-a-half months, and 97 nautical miles from the Pole, Shackleton famously made the decision to turn for ...
May 15, 2019 · South. : Hailed as "a rousing read" by The New York Times, this breathtaking chronicle of Antarctic exploration was written by expedition leader Sir Ernest Shackleton. In 1914 he and his 28-man crew boarded the ship Endurance and sailed away to do something no one had ever done: to traverse and chart the mostly unknown territory of the South Pole.
Jun 20, 2017 · A century after the Endurance expedition, Shackleton's shadow still looms large over South Georgia. His tale is known to history buffs, armchair adventurers, and travelers far and wide, but what ...
Mar 9, 2022 · Choosing the wrong men, as much as choosing the wrong equipment, could put an expedition in serious jeopardy. Leonard Hussey (meteorologist) and Reginald James (physicist) [left & right] in the laboratory (known as the ‘Rookery’) onboard ‘Endurance’ (1912), during the winter of 1915. Hussey can be seen examining the Dine’s anemometer ...
The expedition left the UK in August 1914, and departed from South Georgia for the Weddell Sea on 5 December. The expedition soon encountered significant sea ice cover and on 18 January 1915 at 76°34’S, Endurance became trapped in the ice. The Endurance three-masted ship of Shackleton’s 1914-1915 Antarctic expedition trapped in pack ice ...
