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Nevertheless, in February 1907, Shackleton presented to the Royal Geographical Society his plans for an Antarctic expedition, the details of which, under the name British Antarctic Expedition, were published in the RGS newsletter, Geographical Journal. [18] The aim was the conquest of both the geographical South Pole and the South Magnetic Pole.
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.
Mawson led the 1911–13 Australian Antarctic Expedition, and Priestley was part of the Terra Nova Expedition's scientific team. Wild was second-in-command to the "Boss" on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition and on the short Quest Expedition, where he took over command after Shackleton's death at South Georgia Island in 1922. [94]
Fram.museum.no, map of Antarctic Expeditions 1772 – 1931 at The Fram Museum (Frammuseet) SPRI.cam.ac.uk, index to Antarctic Expeditions at the Scott Polar Research Institute's website; Antarctic Expeditions, information about some of them from the British Antarctic Survey; Antarctic-circle.org, Chronologies and Timelines of Antarctic Exploration
The fabled expedition of Ernest Shackleton, the Anglo-Irish explorer who led 27 men on a voyage to Antarctica in 1914 aboard the three-masted barquentine schooner Endurance, only to see his ship ...
Launching the James Caird from the shore of Elephant Island, 24 April 1916 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 ...
A strategy is to be developed to protect and conserve the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance. The vessel used by the explorer during his 1914 to 1917 expedition sank 107 years ago ...
The Endurance22 Expedition will leave Cape Town, South Africa, on February 5 and travel to Antarctica. ... renowned polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton will set sail 100 years after his death ...