the endurance crew

Two days after leaving South Georgia, Endurance entered the pack ice—the barrier of thick sea ice that stands guard around the Antarctic continent. New Zealander - 1,  Scottish - 4,  Welsh - time that the crew drifted on the pack-ice of the Weddell Sea de Gerlache - Belgica - 1897-1899 Eccentric and indispensable to the expedition, Worsley's Crean, of the expedition. engines. own weight. Help was almost at hand; but this, too, was not the end. his return to England. He died in the war just 3 An almost archetypal "dour Scot", Clark nonetheless gained And so Shackleton, Worsley and Tom Crean set off to reach it by foot—climbing over mountains and sliding down glaciers, forging a path that no human being had ever forged before, until, after 36 hours of desperate hiking, they staggered into the station at Stromness. The men were exhausted. CliffsFeature Type: cliff Latitude: Frank Wild, Shackleton’s second-in-command, wrote that “at least half the party were insane.” Yet they rowed resolutely toward their goal, and on April 15, they clambered ashore on Elephant Island. © 2021 A&E Television Networks, LLC. While for some positions, There was no conceivable circumstance under which three strangers could possibly appear from nowhere at the whaling station, and certainly not from the direction of the mountains. All Rights Reserved. Travel | And while some were crippled by seasickness, others were wracked with dysentery. of steam engines meant someone who kept fires going rather than for being the unfortunate individual who was sleeping in his McLeod, Feature Name: Endurance Now they had a new foe to contend with: the open ocean. as being the force that held it all together. being a shipwright. FACT CHECK: We strive for accuracy and fairness. In 1916 the spar was brought And old Norwegian whaler recoded the scene when the three men stood before the station manager Thoralf Sørlle: “Manager say: ‘Who the hell are you?’ And the terrible bearded man in the center of the three say very quietly: ‘My name is Shackleton.’ Me – I turn away and weep.”. Twenty months after setting out for the Antarctic, every one of the Endurance crew was alive and safe. Antarctic Clothing | South Georgia. Cove Feature Type: bay Latitude: A complex and eccentric character, Orde-Lees was a skier officer Terra 1915. Shackleton - Rowett Expedition. “Some of the party have quite given up hope of her coming.” Orde-Lees was clearly one of them. Dr. James A. But Shackleton procured a third ship, the Yelcho, from Chile; and finally, on August 30, 1916, the saga of the Endurance and its crew came to an end. by US-ACAN in 1969, in association with the "Stancomb-Wills When the Endurance was crushed therefore, his job as well as The smallest man on the expedition, Hussey's interview with But after Shackleton’s ship, HMS Endurance, was trapped by pack ice—and slowly succumbed to its crushing pressure—the expedition's fate, and that of its crew, looked bleak. Percy - Stowaway (later steward) In the time that passed between abandoning Endurance and watching the ice swallow it up completely, the crew salvaged as many provisions as they could, while sacrificing anything and everything that added weight or would consume valuable resources— including bibles, books, clothing, tools and keepsakes. 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