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Pictures page 2
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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 |
The Beginning of the End Gripped by the ice, the Endurance begins to be overwhelmed, tilting over at a crazy angle. |
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 Within a Few Seconds She Heeled Over Until She Had a List of Thirty Degrees to Post Viewed from a different angle, it became clear that the Endurance had little time left, Shackleton and his crew would face their situation and realise they had no-one to rely on but themselves. |
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 Almost Overwhelmed Seen from behind a pressure ridge. |
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 Attack of the Floes A sketch describing how the Endurance was assaulted from all sides. |
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 The Driving Floe Moving Laterally Across the Stern Split the Rudder and Tore out the Rudder Post and the Stern Post |
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 The End 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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 A Week Later The Endurance is completely destroyed, all that remains is for the ice to open slightly and allow her to sink into the ocean depths. |
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 The Wreckage Lies Around in Dismal Confusion Captain Frank Wild and the Endurance in the Weddell Sea. |
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 The First Attempt to Reach the Land 346 Miles Away From a drawing. The lifeboats were loaded with supplies and equipment and used as sleds, the Endurance can be seen in the distance |
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 Ocean Camp 15th December 1915 |
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 The Lookout at Ocean Camp The Kings flag flying |
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 The Emergency Sledges Being Packed in Case of a Sudden Break up of the Ice Spring was arriving and the ice floes that the crew were camping on would break up sometime and without warning, the men had to be prepared. |
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 The Sledges Packed and Ready |
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 Relaying the James Caird Named after one of the sponsors of the expedition, the lifeboat James Caird was to prove vital in the task of returning the crew of the Endurance to safety. |
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 "Potash and Perlmutter" The nicknames given to the cook and his assistant, they were almost permanently black with the soot that came off the seal blubber used to fuel the cooking stoves. |
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 Loneliness The camps the crew made were tiny oases in a vast expanse of white nothingness. |
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 The Kitchen at Patience Camp This camp is where the crew stayed while waiting for the ice they were camping on to break up and allow them to continue their journey by boat, in all they stayed here three months - patiently. |
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 The Stove at Patience Camp Constructed out of old Oil Drums Frank Hurley, left and Ernest Shackleton, right in front of their tent. |
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 Worsley Taking Observations of the Sun to Determine our Position The camps were far from static and drifted as the ice drifted carrying the crew of the Endurance a considerable part of the way to Elephant Island. |
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We Cut Steps in the 25 Foot Slab and it Makes a Fine Lookout An upended slab of ice pushed by the same forces and pressures that crushed the Endurance |
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 There Was No Sleep For Us That Night so we Lit the Blubber Stove Escaping the heavy pack ice was hazardous at night, so the boats were hauled onto ice floes which was safer, though carried the danger of the floe breaking up in the night. |
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Hauling up the Boats for the Night |
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 The Reeling Berg Not an envious place to be - on an unstable piece of ice, but with too much ice surrounding to safely launch the boats lest they be crushed or damaged by the ice around. |
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 Sailing South Again Out of the close pack at last and able to put up sail to make progress to Elephant Island |
Shackleton - South Pictures page 3
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