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Preface
Chapters: I.
Into the Weddell Sea | II.
New Land | III.
Winter Months | IV.
Loss of the Endurance | V.
Ocean Camp
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The March Between | VII.
Patience Camp | VIII.
Escape From the Ice | IX.
The Boat Journey | X.
Across South Georgia | XI.
The Rescue | XII.
Elephant Island | XIII.
The Ross Sea Party | XIV.
Wintering in McMurdo Sound | XV.
Laying the Depots | XVI.
The Aurora's Drift | XVII.
The Last Relief |
XVIII.
The Final Phase Appendix 1: Scientific Work | Sea-Ice Nomenclature | Meteorology | Physics | South Atlantic Whales and Whaling Appendix 2: The Expedition Huts at McMurdo Sound Pictures: page 1 | page 2 | page 3 | page 4 | page 5 | page 6 |
| Summary (4 pages) of the Trans Antarctic Expedition | Selected pictures at higher quality |
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 The Leader Sir Ernest Shackleton. The canvas straps on his chest are of a sledging harness. |
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 The Weddell Sea Party There were two ships involved in the Trans-Antarctic Expedition, one that was to set out from the Weddell Sea side of the continent and the other setting out from the Ross Sea to lay depots for the Weddell Sea party to find. |
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 Young Emperor Penguins A crèche formed for mutual protection and warmth when the parents have gone to sea to find food. |
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 A Huge Floe of Consolidated Pack Pack ice consolidated by the sea in between the loose pieces freezing together |
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 Samson Though Shackleton took sledging dogs with the expedition, the expedition members were still not fully skilled or confident in their use. |
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 Ice Flowers Extremely cold conditions causes water vapour to condense into flower shaped growths on a flat surface. 16th February 1915 |
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 Midnight off the New Land |
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 New Land |
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 Close Under the Barrier Much of Antarctica is surrounded by ice shelves which prevent landings for tens or even hundreds of miles at a time. |
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 Trying to Cut a Way for the Ship Through the Ice to a Lead Ahead Leads are stretches of open water, here the ship is stuck having been surrounded by ice, the only way out is to laboriously saw and axe a channel through the ice. 14th February 1915 |
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 The Night Watchman's Story Gathered around a stove on night-watch |
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 The Dying Sun The Endurance well and truly caught fast by now in the days before the time when the sun disappears below the horizon for the winter months. |
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 The Rampart Berg During the winter months ice-bergs become stuck in the pack ice around them and are relatively stable allowing them to be approached on the ice. |
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 A Bi-Weekly Performance Scrub-out, part of the regular routine of hygiene and maintenance of any base even today. |
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 Pylon Avenue Leaving a ship or base in a white out can be a disorienting experience, lines of some sort between features enable men to get around without wandering off and potentially dying. These days, empty oil drums often serve the same purpose. |
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 The Long Long Night "During the night take flashlight of ship beset by pressure. This necessitated some 20 flashes, one behind each salient pressure hummock, no less than 10 flashes being required to satisfactorily illuminate the ship herself. Half blinded after the successive flashes, I lost my bearings amidst hummocks, bumping shins against projecting ice points & stumbling into deep snow drifts." - Frank Hurley, diary 27th August 1915. |
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 The Pups |
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 The Pressure Approaching the Ship The Endurance held tight by the ice is subjected to pressure as the ice moves forwards and piles up propelled by distant storms, winds and sea current |
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 Ice Rafting When the pressure builds, sometimes the ice has nowhere to go but on top of itself. |
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 The Returning Sun After the winter months of darkness, the sun re-appears over the horizon to herald an Antarctic spring, note the rigging covered with ice crystals. |
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 Wild and Shackleton in the Heavy Pressure Pressure ridges can throw up some very high ridges making rugged terrain which is difficult to travel over. |
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 Exercising the Dogs Pulling a small sledge through the pressure ridges and difficult ice conditions. |
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 Crabeater Seals The second most numerous large mammal on earth after man are very dispersed throughout the sea ice. They provided the staple diet for the dogs and also the men on many expeditions. |
Shackleton - South Pictures page 2
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