Quotes About Isolation

adding up to a total thickness of 7 feet, 1 inch.

Outside this planking, to keep her from being chafed by the ice

also be 6 miles closer to Stromness Bay on the opposite side of the island where the whaling stations were situated.

was populated by hundreds of sea elephants, enough to keep them supplied with food and fuel indefinitely

The sledge astern of the Dudley Docker continually got hung up on bits of ice

When she had been abandoned twenty-five days before, it had seemed that she would sink at any moment.

precious little had been learned about conditions in these unfrequented waters.

It had been very nearly a year since they had last been in contact with civilization

Shackleton estimated the shelf ice off the Palmer Peninsula—the nearest known land—to be 182 miles WSW of them.

The nearest known place where they might at least find food and shelter was tiny Paulet Island

They thus remained almost motionless, while their supply of meat dwindled alarmingly.

consisting of canned vegetables, tapioca, dog pemmican, and jam.

In a tired hand he concluded the entry: "My dogs will be shot tomorrow.

and the Endurance lay in a small pool of open water—truly afloat for the first time since she was beset nine months before.

then raised their heads and uttered a series of weird, mournful, dirgelike cries.

where the stores left in 1902 should still be.

On February 9, Shackleton wrote: "No seals. Must reduce blubber consumption . . . oh for a touch of dry land under our feet.

But she was no longer a ship. She was not even afloat, really.

stewed penguin heart, liver, eyes, tongues, toes & God knows what else, with a cup of water" to wash it down.

Thousands of penguins dotted the pack in every direction

All hands were put to the slaughter, bringing in every penguin that could be reached.

Then he laid the Bible in the snow and walked away.

The two surgeons, of course, were permitted a small amount of medical supplies and instruments.

Mrs. Chippy some distance from camp and shot them without a qualm