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Shackleton’s Endurance Expedition Timeline
When Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition left South Georgia Island on 5 December 1914 to assist his bid to be the first to cross the Antarctic continent, he had no idea that a year and a half later he would end up on a rescue mission trekking across the very same subantarctic island where he started. Having not so much as set foot on the Antarctic continent, the expedition’s story, outlined below, remains one of the most remarkable polar survival sagas of all time.
1914
The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition departs Grytviken whaling station, aboard the Endurance, in a bid to cross Antarctica from the Weddell Sea coast to the Ross Sea coast. This is the last time crew would touch land for 497 days.
The Endurance crosses the Antarctic Circle, 66 33 degrees south.
1915
First sighting of the Antarctic continent (Coats Land).
The Endurance becomes beset in pack ice in the Weddell Sea.
Crew celebrates Midwinter’s Day with a feast on the Endurance.
Pressure ice makes the Endurance, according to Perce Blackborow, “literally [jump] into the air and [settle] on its beam.”
Shackleton gives order to abandon the Endurance.
Shackleton and his crew set up camp on the pack ice, drifting north for
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Shackleton’s ‘Endurance’ expedition
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All year, the ship had been trapped, ice pushing and pinching the hull, the wood howling in protest. Finally, on October 27, 1915, a new wave of pressure rippled across the ice, lifting the ship’s stern and tearing off its rudder and its keel. Freezing water began to rush in.
“She’s going, boys,” came the cry. “It’s time to get off.”
From the moment Ernest Shackleton and his crew aboard the British expedition ship, HMS Endurance had become immobilized in Antarctica's ice 10 months earlier, they had been preparing for this moment. Now, those on board removed their last remaining belongings from the ship and set up camp on the ice. Twenty-five days later, what remained of the wreck convulsed once more, and the Endurance disappeared beneath the ice.
Incredibly, all 27 men under Shackleton's command would survive the grueling Antarctic expedition, but their ship remained sunk and lost to history—until 106 years later.
On March 9, 2022, a team of scientists and adventurers announced they had finally located what remained of the Endurance at the bottom of Antarctica's Weddell Sea. The team made the discovery using submersibles and undersea drones and released stunning photos of the long-lost wooden ship where it had lodged in the seabed nearly 10,000 f