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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 9, 2022 · published 9 March 2022. The Endurance Expedition was a failed mission to cross the Antarctic on foot, leaving 28 explorers stranded.
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Mar 9, 2022 · Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition leader, was aiming to establish a base on Antarctica’s Weddell Sea coast and then keep going to the Ross Sea on the other side of the continent. Within two...
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- 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.
Apr 8, 2024 · He attempted a fourth Antarctic expedition, called the Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition, aboard the Quest in 1921, which had the goal of circumnavigating the continent. Shackleton died at Grytviken, South Georgia, however, at the outset of the journey.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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 ...
Pioneer Explorers. The History of Shackleton’s Endurance. In 1914, famed explorer Ernest Shackleton, along with a skilled crew, sailed ‘Endurance’ towards the South Pole, hoping to be the first to cross Antarctica from sea to sea via the South Pole.
