Quotes About Exploration

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

albatrosses on the nest. Shackleton went back for the shotgun, and they killed one adult and one chick.

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

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 only superfluous item Shackleton permitted was Worsley's diary.

At twelve-forty, Shackleton gave the order in a quiet voice. "Launch the boats.

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.

Thus, while Shackleton was undeniably out of place, even inept, in a great many everyday situations

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

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

The beast looked like a small dinosaur, with a long, serpentine neck.

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

By two-thirty, the Caird was a little more than 3 miles off the coast

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

Charles Darwin, on first seeing these waves breaking on Tierra del Fuego in 1833, wrote in his diary:

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