Endurance, 1915–1916: From Pack Ice to Elephant Island Also known as: Endurance expedition · Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917)
Explore how Shackleton’s expedition survived the loss of Endurance, reached Elephant Island, and secured rescue through a small-boat voyage.
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Related to Ernest Shackleton 80% Expedition leader
Expedition leader in “Endurance, 1915–1916: From Pack Ice to Elephant Island”. Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
Related to Endurance (1912 ship) 80% Crushed expedition ship
Crushed expedition ship in “Endurance, 1915–1916: From Pack Ice to Elephant Island”. Endurance was the three-masted barquentine in which Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men sailed for the Antarctic on the 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. The ship, originally named Polaris, was built at Framnæs shipyard and launched in 1912 from Sandefjord in Norway.
Related to Frank Worsley 80% Navigator
Navigator in “Endurance, 1915–1916: From Pack Ice to Elephant Island”. Frank Arthur Worsley was a New Zealand sailor and explorer who served on Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1916, as captain of Endurance. He also served in the Royal Navy Reserve during the First World War.
Related to Frank Wild 80% Led stranded party
Led stranded party in “Endurance, 1915–1916: From Pack Ice to Elephant Island”. John Robert Francis Wild was an English sailor and explorer.
Related to Voyage of the James Caird 80% Rescue voyage
Rescue voyage in “Endurance, 1915–1916: From Pack Ice to Elephant Island”. The voyage of the James Caird was a journey of 1,300 kilometres (700 nmi) from Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands through the Southern Ocean to South Georgia, undertaken by Sir Ernest Shackleton and five companions to obtain rescue for the main body of
Related to Elephant Island 80% Crew refuge
Crew refuge in “Endurance, 1915–1916: From Pack Ice to Elephant Island”. Elephant Island is an ice-covered, mountainous island off the coast of Antarctica in the outer reaches of the South Shetland Islands, in the Southern Ocean.
Related to South Georgia 80% Rescue destination
Rescue destination in “Endurance, 1915–1916: From Pack Ice to Elephant Island”. South Georgia is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It lies around 1,400 kilometres east of the Falkland Islands.
Related to Luis Pardo 80% Rescue captain
Rescue captain in “Endurance, 1915–1916: From Pack Ice to Elephant Island”. Luis Alberto Pardo Villalón was a Chilean Navy officer who, in August 1916, commanded the steam tug Yelcho to rescue the 22 stranded crewmen of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, Endurance, part of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
Related to Yelcho (1906 tug) 80% Final rescue vessel
Final rescue vessel in “Endurance, 1915–1916: From Pack Ice to Elephant Island”. Yelcho was a tugboat built in 1906 by the Scottish firm Geo. Brown and Co. of Greenock, on the River Clyde for towage and cargo service of the Chilean Sociedad Ganadera e Industrial Yelcho y Palena, Puerto Montt.