Portrait of Ernest Shackleton
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The Endurance in young sea-ice. The
Endurance easily cuts through the recently frozen, thin sea ice on its journey
south through the Weddell Sea.
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Trapped in the Weddell Sea, desperate
efforts were made to free the ship, these were of no avail, because the
ice froze together as quickly as it could be cut away 14th February 1915
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The surface of a newly frozen lead
was covered with delicate crystal rosette formations resembling nothing
so much as a field of white carnations Endurance, in the background, 16th
February 1915
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A midnight sunset and the Endurance
in the Weddell Sea, ca. 22nd February 1915
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As time wore on it became more and more
evident that the ship was doomed. Endurance among ice pinnacles, February
1915
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The Endurance behind rounded ice mounds
in the Weddell Sea.
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Frank Hurley with camera on ice in
front of the bow of the trapped Endurance in the Weddell Sea, 1915.
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The prow of the Endurance. The ship
was to remain trapped in the ice for over 10 months before finally being
crushed.
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The long, long night, the Endurance
in the Antarctic winter darkness, trapped in the Weddell Sea, 27th August
1915.
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When the Endurance
became solidly embedded, the dogs were transferred from the decks to
the floe and housed in snow kennels called dogloos which the dog-men
built with competitive pride
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The ice was in convulsion ahead of the
ship, and a splitting crash suddenly caused all hands to rush up on
deck to find that a crack had opened from the lead ahead and passed along
the starboard side to another crack that had opened aft. October 14th 1915
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The Endurance leaning to port, 19th
October 1915.
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The doomed ship, the pressure of many
millions of tons of ice made a toy of the helpless vessel. The Endurance
in the Weddell Sea.
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Endurance crushed to death by the
icepacks of the Weddell Sea. The sinking ship, watched by the dogs, 1st
November 1915.
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Ocean Camp, 15th December 1915
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