Ernest Shackleton
Pictures of the Endurance Expedition
Page 1 - The journey to Antarctica and into the the Weddell
Sea, the besetting of the Endurance, Winter 1915, the crushing
and loss of the ship.
pictures - page 2
A young Australian photographer Frank Hurley accompanied
Shackleton on the Trans-Antarctic Expedition to record events
in motion and still pictures. Little was it realised
when setting off exactly what an epic tale would be recorded
and that amongst the film would be some of the Endurance itself
being crushed and sunk by sea-ice. Shackleton had a deal with
a London newspaper to sell his story and pictures on his return
to England, a legacy of the difficulty in providing funding
for the expedition. Hurley for his part planned to sell the
photographs and film on his return, so there were pressing financial
reasons to return with a good record as well capturing images
of history in the making.
As a result almost every stage of the journey is recorded.
Some of the photographs are presented here.

Sir Ernest Shackleton Portrait
l to r - Jock Wordie, geologist - Alfred
Cheetham, 3rd Officer - Alexander Macklin, doctor

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
Endurance in ice passing by a large ice
berg

Cheetham preparing signal flags
John Vincent AB reparing a net

Tom Crean with puppy quadruplets born
to sled dog Sally during the passage south.
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.
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
Endurance in the ice attemtping to make
progress
Trapped in the ice, rime forming on the
rigging
Frank Hurley in the rigging with an early
cine camera
December 1914
Leonard Hussey and dog sled team
January 1915, pressure has pushed ice
up and over on its self builing an icy boulder field
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
As time wore on it became more and more
evident that the ship was doomed. Endurance among ice
pinnacles, February 1915
The Endurance behind rounded ice mounds
in the Weddell Sea.
Frank Hurley with camera on ice in front
of the bow of the trapped Endurance in the Weddell Sea,
1915.
Endurance at night lit by multiple flashes
"Mid winter glow, Weddell Sea, 1915
Noon on midwinters day 1915
The crew of the Endurance at dinner
Rime forming on the rigging of the Endurance
during the winter
Bringing the dogs off the ship to their
kennels on the sea ice
The deck of the Endurance after a snow-fall
The long, long night, the Endurance in
the Antarctic winter darkness, trapped in the Weddell
Sea, 27th August 1915.
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
A string of snow and ice cairns connected
with rope, to allow the men to find the ship if on the
ice ina white-out
Feeding the dogs in their "dogloo" kennels
on the ice
Scientific equipment at the stern of
the Endurance
Weighing the dogs by the bows of the
ship to establish their condition
The crew of the Endurance following some
severe haircuts
Returning to the ship in the winter dark
with skis
Samson, the largest of the dogs at his
kennel / dogloo
The night watch man and some friends
keeping warm around the stove
The Endurance leaning to port, 19th October
1915, the ship righted herself again after this.
24th October 1915, The Endurance having
sustained damage from the ice that tore out the rudder
post and stern post
27th October 1915, The doomed ship, the
pressure of many millions of tons of ice pushing the
pack made a toy of the helpless vessel.
1st November 1915. The Endurance lies
crushed, still above the ice, though shortly to sink.
28 men led by Ernest Shackleton are left in the middle
of the Weddell Sea with no hope of rescue.
The men of the Endurance try to salvage
what they can from the crushed ship
Frank Wild and Sir Ernest Shackleton
survey the ruins of the Endurance
The ship was dead, her proud timbers
were rent apart and scattered in savage confusion. Crushed
and sunk to the level of the sea but not yet gone
The stern of the ship shortly before
it sank beneath the ice and the sea
Frank Wild and the Endurance in the Weddell
Sea.
Dump Camp, the morning after the disaster
to the ship - the Endurance in the background, this
was the first camp on the ice erected hurriedly when
the ice started to crush the Endurance.
Pictures - page 2
Ernest Shackleton Books and Video
South - Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance Expedition (1919)
original footage -
DVD
Shackleton
dramatization
Kenneth Branagh (2002) -
DVD

Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure (2001)
IMAX dramatization -
DVD

The Endurance - Shackleton's Legendary Expedition (2000)
PBS NOVA,
dramatization with original footage -
DVD

Endurance : Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Alfred Lansing
(Preface) -
Book

South
with Endurance: Frank Hurley - official photographer
Book

South! Ernest Shackleton Shackleton's own words
Book
Shackleton's Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer
Book
Shackleton's Boat Journey: The narrative of Frank Worsley
Book
Shackleton
biography by Roland
Huntford
Book
The Quest for Frank Wild,
biography by Angie Butler
Book
The Endurance : Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
by
Caroline Alexander
Book

Mrs. Chippy's Last Expedition: The Remarkable Journal of Shackleton's
Polar-Bound Cat
Book 
Shackleton's Forgotten Men
Lennard Bickel
Book
Elephant Island and Beyond: The Life and Diaries of Thomas Orde Lees
Book

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World - Jennifer Armstrong
for ages 12 and up
Book