![]() (Summary from Wikipedia)Īs the last section of this project we include a short original recording by Ernest Shackleton about his 1907 "Nimrod" expedition. Shackleton managed to rescue all of the stranded crew from Elephant Island without loss in the Chilean's navy seagoing steam tug Yelcho, on August 30, 1916, in the middle of the Antarctic winter. ![]() It was published in London by William Heinemann in 1919. Shackleton and five other men managed to reach the southern coast of South Georgia in one of the small boats (in a real epic journey). South is a book by Ernest Shackleton describing the second expedition to Antarctica led by him, the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914 to 1917. The 28 crew members managed to flee to Elephant Island, bringing three small boats with them. The ship was broken by the ice on 27 October 1915. ![]() It set out from London on 1 August 1914 and reached the Weddell Sea on January 10, 1915, where the pack ice closed in on the Endurance. Shackleton's most famous expedition was planned to be an attempt to cross Antarctica from the Weddell Sea south of the Atlantic to the Ross Sea south of the Pacific, by way of the Pole. ![]() Download cover art Download CD case insert South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 ![]()
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