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While Shackleton led the expedition, Captain Frank Worsley commanded the Endurance [122] and Captain Aeneas Mackintosh the Aurora. [123] On the Endurance, the second-in-command was the experienced explorer Frank Wild, [124] and the first officer was Lionel Greenstreet. [125] The meteorologist was Leonard Hussey, [126] who was also an able banjo ...
The expedition met disastrous results when its ship became trapped and ultimately crushed in the ice pack. Shackleton and his 28-man crew endured the long polar winter before ultimately finding rescue following an 800-mile open boat voyage on the Weddell Sea. Against all odds, the entire crew of Endurance survived.
Shackleton took a steamer to Buenos Aires and caught up with his expedition a few days after Endurance ' s arrival. [8] On 26 October 1914, Endurance sailed from Buenos Aires to what would be her last port of call, [ 38 ] the whaling station at Grytviken on the island of South Georgia , where she arrived on 5 November.
The fabled expedition of Ernest Shackleton, the Anglo-Irish explorer who led 27 men on a voyage to Antarctica in 1914 aboard the three-masted barquentine schooner Endurance, only to see his ship ...
The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917 is considered to be the last major expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Conceived by Sir Ernest Shackleton , the expedition was an attempt to make the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent.
A strategy is to be developed to protect and conserve the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance. The vessel used by the explorer during his 1914 to 1917 expedition sank 107 years ago ...
When the crew aboard the S.A. Agulhas II set out in early 2022 to search for the Endurance shipwreck, it seemed nearly impossible. “It’s the holy grail,” Nico Vincent, the sub-sea manager on ...
Shackleton's Captain is a 2012 New Zealand documentary directed by Leanne Pooley. [1] The film chronicles the 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton, focusing on the pivotal role of Captain Frank Worsley in ensuring the crew's survival after their ship, the Endurance, was trapped and crushed by Antarctic pack ice.The documentary combines expert interviews ...