[Ernest Shackleton, Captain Frank Worsley and crew setting out from Elephant Island, Easter Monday, 24 April 1916, Shackleton expedition] [picture] : [Antarctica] /

• Main Author: Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962.
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: [1916] 1910
• Subjects: Boats and boating > Antarctica > Photographs; Antarctic; Shackleton; Antarctic Ocean; Elephant Island; Hurley; Caird; Worsley; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an24777997

Part of the Hurley collection of photographic prints.; Published in Argonauts of the south, 1925, facing p. 259. Detail also published in Shackleton's South, 1919, facing p. 160 with the caption: Launching the James Caird on the relief voyage to South Georgia. The boat was but a frail cockle-shell with an improvised deck made from fragments of canvas and packing case lids. The successful crossing of 750 miles of tempestuous icy sub-Antarctic Ocean is one of the greatest feats in the annals of exploration.; Hurley series: Antarctica.; Used with clouds in composite PIC FH/1073. Reshot.; Related negative in the Hurley negative collection: PIC FH/1033.; Accompanied by handwritten description of photograph on 1 folded sheet.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an24777997; Exhibited: "In a New Light: Australian Photography 1850s-1930s", National Library of Australia, 9 Oct. 03-26 Jan. 04. Launching the James Caird on the relief voyage to South Georgia