The voyage of the James Caird was a journey of 1,300 kilometres (800 mi) from Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands through the Southern Ocean to South Georgia, undertaken by Sir Ernest Shackleton and five companions to obtain rescue for the main body of the stranded Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917. Historians regard the voyage of the crew in …

The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917 is considered to be the last major expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.Conceived by Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition was an attempt to make the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent.After Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition in 1911, this crossing remained, in Shackleton's words, …

- Ernest Shackleton. So was born what became the Imperial Trans-Antarctica expedition of 1914 - 1917. The goal was ambitious - audacious even, considering that only 10 men had ever stood at the South Pole and 5 of those had died on the way back. The story that would unfold was to be beyond any expectations and completely different to that planned. It is quite simply one of the …

Pemmican (also pemican in older sources) is a mixture of tallow, dried meat, and sometimes dried berries.A calorie-rich food, it can be used as a key component in prepared meals or eaten raw. Historically, it was an important part of indigenous cuisine in certain parts of North America and it is still prepared today. The word comes from the Cree word ᐱᒦᐦᑳᓐ (pimîhkân), which is …

Endurance was the three-masted barquentine in which Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men sailed for the Antarctic on the 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.The ship, originally named Polaris, was built at Framnæs shipyard and launched in 1912 from Sandefjord in Norway.After her commissioners could no longer pay the shipyard, the ship was bought by …

The island was the desolate refuge of the British explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew in 1916 following the loss of their ship Endurance in the pack ice of the Weddell Sea.The crew of 28 reached Cape Valentine on Elephant Island after months spent drifting on ice floes and a harrowing crossing of the open ocean in small lifeboats. After camping at Cape Valentine for …

Die Endurance-Expedition, offiziell British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, war eine Antarktisexpedition in den Jahren von 1914 bis 1917. Sie war die letzte große Expedition des Goldenen Zeitalters der Antarktis-Forschung.Gemein hatten diese Expeditionen die Beschränktheit der für sie verfügbaren Ressourcen, bevor der Fortschritt auf den Gebieten …

The Nimrod Expedition of 1907–1909, otherwise known as the British Antarctic Expedition, was the first of three successful expeditions to the Antarctic led by Ernest Shackleton and his second expedition to the Antarctic.Its main target, among a range of geographical and scientific objectives, was to be first to the South Pole.This was not attained, but the expedition's …

En este punto le pidió a Ernest Bevin que se adelantara y compartiera los aplausos. Bevin dijo: «No, Winston, este es tu día», y procedió a dirigir a la gente en el canto de For Is a Jolly Good Fellow. [378] Por la noche, Churchill hizo otra transmisión a la nación afirmando que la derrota de Japón seguiría en los próximos meses (los japoneses se rindieron el 15 de agosto de 1945).

The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration was an era in the exploration of the continent of Antarctica which began at the end of the 19th century, and ended after the First World War; the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition of 1921–1922 is often cited by historians as the dividing line between the "Heroic" and "Mechanical" ages.. During the Heroic Age, the Antarctic region …