Quotes About Exploration

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

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

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

Then, at just about two o'clock, they saw where they were.

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

Shackleton shouted excitedly to McNeish and Vincent below to shift ballast

craggy peak off the port bow. It was Annenkov Island

And they realized at once that it lay directly in their path.

with the possible exception of the Fram, the vessel used by Fridtjof Nansen, and later by Amundsen.

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)

But since the Endurance was designed to operate in relatively loose pack ice

However, on the trip from London to Buenos Aires

The trip across the Atlantic took more than two months.

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

Each dog in turn was taken off his trace and led behind a row of large ice hummocks.

At noon they were almost abeam of Cape Demidov once more

dead ahead were two inviting glaciers which held the promise of ice to be melted into water.

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

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

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.

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