Antarctica, 1914–1916
Shackleton's Endurance
Trapped in the ice, then 800 miles in a lifeboat: every man came home.
- Stops
- 5
- Straight-line distance
- ≈ 3,990 km
- Look
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The stops
- 1
Grytviken
Grytviken, South Georgia
Grytviken church, South Georgia
Sailing ship · 1,801 km - 2
Endurance sinks
Weddell Sea, where Endurance sank (1915)
Endurance trapped in the ice, 1915
Rowboat · 858 km - 3
Elephant Island
Point Wild, Elephant Island
The castaways on Elephant Island, 1916
Rowboat · 1,290 km - 4
King Haakon Bay
King Haakon Bay, South Georgia
Launch of the James Caird, 1916
Hiker · 42 km - 5
Stromness
Stromness whaling station, South Georgia
Stromness whaling station, South Georgia
Photo credits
From Wikimedia Commons, resized and cropped. Each credit also shows in the corner of the video while its photo is on screen.
- Grytviken church, South Georgia by nomis-simon · CC BY 2.0 · source
- Endurance trapped in the ice, 1915 by Frank Hurley · Public domain · source
- The castaways on Elephant Island, 1916 by Frank Hurley · Public domain · source
- Launch of the James Caird, 1916 by Frank Hurley · Public domain · source
- Stromness whaling station, South Georgia by Rob Oo · CC BY 2.0 · source
