Shackleton’s Epic Journey, 1916

• Main Author: Reaney, Richard
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: 1999
• Subjects: Antarctic; Elephant Island; Pacific; Shackleton; South Pole; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; South pole
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10092/14291

It is often claimed that there has never been a greater feat of seamanship than Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton's open boat voyage from Elephant Island to South Georgia in 1916 after the loss of his ship Endurance. Ernest Shackleton was a member of Scott's first Antarctic expedition Of 1901-04...