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Frank Hurley
Despite attempts to free the 'Endurance' from the ice on February 14th and 15th, 1915, the ship was inextricably stuck. “What the ice gets, the ice keeps,” Shackleton once said. In the hazy days leading up to the Endurance sinking, captain and expert navigator Frank Worsley was unable to take an accurate location reading. Without reliable data, the ship’s location has remained a mystery for more than a century.
Explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew faced months of isolation, risk, and uncertainty after their ship Endurance became trapped in pack ice in 1915. Soccer games were one of many diversions Shackleton contrived to keep his men occupied and morale high.
What began as a journey of exploration became a 20-month battle to stay alive after the Endurance became beset in pack ice. Remarkably, Shackleton and his 27 men came through the ordeal with high spirits and without loss of life.
Life aboard Endurance during the long winter of 1915 included dominoes, checkers, pipe smoke, and the cheery notes of a banjo. "We had a merry evening," one expedition member wrote in his journal, "though it is difficult to find songs we've not heard many times before."
Dr. Leslie A. Whetter and John Close collect ice for drinking water during a blizzard on Cape Denison on Antarctica’s Commonwealth Bay in 1912. After setting up camp on the Cape, Whetter and his team moved further west and came across the first meteorite to be discovered on the continent.