4288 x 2848 px | 36,3 x 24,1 cm | 14,3 x 9,5 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
5 juillet 2010
Informations supplémentaires:
endurance crushed by ice weddell sea Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition Sir Ernest Shackleton attempt cross Antarctic continent 1914 struggle survival twenty-eight man crew two years. beset men stranded pack ice crew drifted launch boats and somehow managed to land them safely on Elephant Island. Shackleton then led a crew of five aboard the James Caird (boat) through the Drake Passage and miraculously reached South Georgia Island 650 nautical miles away. He then took two of those men on the first successful overland crossing of the island, something that was never done before. Three months later he was finally able to rescue the remaining crew members they had left behind on Elephant Island Virtually every diary kept during the expedition was made available to the author and almost all the surviving members at the time of writing submitted to lengthy interviews. The most significant contribution came from Dr. Alexander Macklin one of the ship's surgeons who provided Lansing with many diaries, a detailed account of the perilous journey the crew made to Elephant Island and months of advice.
