Understanding the drift of Shackleton’s Endurance during its last days before it sank in November 1915 using meteorological reanalysis data

• Main Authors: Vos, Marc, Rabenstein, Lasse, Kountouris, Panagiotis, Shears, John, Suhrhoff, Mira, Katlein, Christian
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Antarctic; Shackleton; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Worsley; Antarc*; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-2022-9; https://hgss.copernicus.org/preprints/hgss-2022-9/

On 5 December 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew set sail from South Georgia aboard the wooden barquentine vessel Endurance , thus beginning the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition to cross the Antarctic continent. However, Shackleton and his crew never reached land because the vessel became b...