Quotes About Antarctica

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

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

Sailing Direction for Antarctica, these winds are described categorically:

It connects the hazardous Drake Passage with the waters of the Weddell Sea—and it is a treacherous place.

It was served at breakfast, along with five ounces of seal steak.

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

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

Shackelton rushed aft and took over the lines of the tiller from Crean.

The Endurance is crushed between the floes, October 24, 1915 (Royal Geographic Society) Frank Wild surveys the wreck of the Endurance on November 8, 1915, during their last official visit to the wreck (Royal Geographic Society)

Then on January 13, a rumor spread that Shackleton was considering killing the dogs

Then, in a quiet, level voice, Shackleton ordered Wild to shoot his own team along with McIlroy's, Marston's, and Crean's.

unsuspectingly around the ice hummock to his death with his tail wagging.

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

The next morning, three seals were sighted, and Macklin was sent out with Tom Crean to fetch them.

Shackleton told Macklin that since the party now had a fair supply of meat, his dogs would not be killed

January 25, and to McNeish it was a "proper sea fog," indicating the presence of the ice-free ocean nearby.

a party of eighteen under Wild should start out early the next morning to bring up the Stancomb Wills.

The Stancomb Wills was safe in camp by one o'clock.