Imperial Trans Antarctic Expedition
Shackleton Gives The Order To Sail The Lifeboats The Endurance Expedition – Voyage to Elephant Island Begins “Many of the important events of our Expedition occurred on Sundays, and this particular day was to see our forced departure from the floe on which we had lived for nearly six months, and the start of our…
The Endurance Trapped Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition On the 5th of December 1914 the Endurance slipped from the rugged shores of South Georgia, its destination Antarctica, and the goal, a trans-continental march, via the South Pole, from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea. Before departure Shackleton had been warned by the Norwegians that manned the…