Quotes About Expedition

He had originally hoped to use this place only as a stopover to replenish their water and to obtain a few days' rest

would remain on the south side of the island and three of the party would go overland to bring help.

By land it was a scant 29 miles in a straight line.

of which the forward one was square-rigged

Shackleton said he would make the journey with Worsley and Crean as soon as it seemed feasible.

and they varied in thickness from about 18 inches to more than 2½ feet.

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

Shackleton decided they would sail the Caird to the head of King Haakon Bay, a distance of about 6 miles.

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

It was one-thirty in the afternoon when the crews scrambled on board each boat;

The encircling ice fouled the oars, and collisions were unavoidable

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

Sailing Direction for Antarctica, these winds are described categorically:

The James Caird was in the lead with Shackleton at the tiller.

The largest items needed for the expedition were the ships that would carry the two parties to the Antarctic.

She was to carry the Ross Sea party, under the command of Lieutenant Aeneas Mackintosh, who had served aboard the Nimrod on Shackleton's 1907–1909 expedition.

The sea leopard's jawbone, which measured nearly 9 inches across

Crean hurriedly took over the helm from Worsley who spread the chart out so that he and Shackleton might study

They were 21 feet 9 inches long, with a 6-foot-2-inch beam, and they had three seats

They also mounted stubby masts to which a sail could be secured;

Before long the rain turned into sleet, then hail that drummed across the decking.

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