1) Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition set sail in 1915 with the goal of crossing Antarctica, but their ship Endurance became trapped in ice in the Weddell Sea.
2) After drifting for months, Endurance was crushed by ice in October 1915, forcing the crew to camp on ice floes until the ice broke up in 1916.
3) Shackleton then led a group of men on a harrowing open boat journey across the treacherous Drake Passage to the whaling station on South Georgia Island to fetch help for the others left stranded on Elephant Island.
18. The night photograph of Endurance held fast in the ice of the Weddell Sea, is one of the most famous & enduring of the 120 images to come out of Shackleton’s expedition
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20. Endurance among ice pinnacles: As time wore on it became more & more evident that the ship was doomed - February 1915
62. Shackleton’s snow goggles After crossing South Georgia to reach the safety of the whaling station at Stromness, Shackleton gave these goggles to a Norwegian whaler named Harald Nilsen
63. These boots are most likely those worn by James Mann Wordie during Shackleton's Endurance Expedition Wordie was geologist aboard Endurance
64. Frank Worsley used this pocket watch to help navigate the James Caird during Shackleton's historic open boat journey from Elephant Island to South Georgia, 1916
65. This chronometer was used by Worsley during the open boat journey, aboard James Caird, from Elephant Island to South Georgia in 1916
66. Shackleton received over 5000 applications including this letter from 'three sporty girls' who were keen to be considered alongside the men
67. The ordeal lasted 20 months Shackleton kept this diary during the months spent marooned on the ice
68. Map drawn from memory by Frank Worsley shortly after his return from the expedition. It shows the route across South Georgia taken by Ernest Shackleton, Tom Crean and Frank Worsley in May 1916 during the Endurance expedition
69. Shackleton is buried on South Georgia Island were he died in 1922 as he tried to sail around Antarctica