The next day they lowered the motorcar onto the ice pack, the first automobile on the Antarctic Continent. Adams, Wild, Marshal; left to right photographed by Shackleton at their furthest South. The team set up the hut they had brought with them and the men crammed in. The weather began to close in and the sun to set. The other men had set up many depots for the journey using the motorcar for several of them. The team began to run low on rations shot the ponies for food.
On the 9th of January they reached a new furthest south - just 97 miles from the South Pole. They had to turn around due to lack of food. After the Norwegian Amundsen December and Scott January had reached the South Pole, Shackleton thought up and attempted to carry out another great plan - to cross the mile Antarctic continent.
The team of 28 men and 68 dogs never set foot on the continent the husky dogs had come from Gimli near Winnipeg, crated in cattle cars to Montreal and shipped in the cattle boat 'Montcalm' to England. Shackleton's ship the "Endurance" named after our family motto "By Endurance we conquer" was trapped in the ice in the Weddell Sea for 11 months, from January until it was squashed and sank in November , leaving 28 men on the ice with 3 small ship's boats.
They then spent 5 admittedly summer months on an iceberg floating away from the continent. With great good fortune they landed on Elephant Island on the 15th of April It is a small godforsaken island of rock and ice with a few penguins and seals for food.
So there they were in April , lost to the civilised world, and heading into an Antarctic winter. Losing no time Shackleton's next move was to be one of the greatest small boat journeys ever made.
Shackleton and 5 others set off in the 22 foot boat the "James Caird" on an mile journey across one of the roughest seas in the world to island of South Georgia to get help. Tom Crean was one of the great crew members of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration. He was strong, courageous and good humoured and experienced - he had already already been on two of Scott's expeditions - and was awarded the Albert Medal for bravery.
Despite their awful conditions McCarthy was always happy - and it was him who first spotted South Georgia, 15 days after they had left Elephant Island. Their extraordinary journey was not yet over - to reach help, Shackleton, Crean and Worsley then had to cross the mountains, glaciers and snowfields of South Georgia to get to the whaling station at Stromness.
Three and a half months later, at the fourth attempt, Shackleton, in a Chilean tug the "Yelcho' rescued the remaining 22 crew on Elephant Island on the 30th August It was amazing that all the crew had survived. Sir Ernest Shackleton may have never reached the South Pole but one of his descendants has. Navy Commander Scott Shackleton, a distant relative of the legendary explorer, set foot on the South Pole on the 9 th February, , finally realising a family dream.
True story. Or go on one of the many other cruises to Antarctica which include the remote and spellbinding island of South Georgia. Top Ten Ernest Shackleton Facts. Author: Greg Carter. Antarctica Inspirations. Trip recommended for you: Spirit of Schackleton. This rocky and barren island was still more than miles from the nearest inhabited land with people who could help them.
He decided to leave most of the party behind, while he and five others set out on the James Caird to reach South Georgia, the nearest inhabited island, miles away. He knew that he would find help there, at the Norwegian whaling stations on the north side. After 15 exhausting days at sea, the crew of the James Caird finally sighted South Georgia. No, because they were on the uninhabited side of the island. To get to the whaling stations, they had to cross the unmapped island to the other side.
Shackleton led, taking Tom Crean and Frank Worsley, the expert navigator on the James Caird , who also had mountaineering experience. The journey involved a climb of nearly feet metres. Apart from short breaks, they marched continuously for 36 hours, covering some 40 miles over mountainous and icy terrain until they finally reached the Stromness whaling station.
They were all rescued. Those on Elephant Island had to wait longer, until 30 August , but were eventually picked up by Shackleton on a Chilean navy tug. All the men believed that their survival was due largely to his tremendous leadership.
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