#Sir Ernest Shackleton

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Endurance in a new 3d scan by the Falkland Maritime Heritage Trust

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a live donkey

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I finished reading Alfred Lansing’s “Endurance” yesterday, I was absolutely engrossed in it, and then the last month happened, and I haven’t read anything. So it was amazing to finally find some headspace and get back into it. It’s incredible what they went through, and everyone saved, and all the photos, just wow.

So many of the things they went through in isolation would have been awful enough, but all that, all at once, unimaginable. The navigating. The kindness. I could sit down and read the whole book again almost immediately. Which is probably good because…

I’ve got “South” by Shackleton and Mensun Bound’s “The Ship Beneath The Ice” to read next, I’m thinking the latter first. Finding the wreck sounds so fascinating as well.

Has anyone got any documentary recs or anything about Endurance? My Dad has enjoyed me rambling about it, but isn’t up to reading at the moment, but something to watch would be good! 🩵

[tomcreanstory]

A biography best read accompanied by a glass of Guinness in the South Pole Inn, Annascaul, whilst wallowing in the spirit of Tom Crean, whose images adorn the walls around you. Failing that, just turn the pages anywhere, his epic story will amaze you and if you thought you knew his incredible story, think again!! #justsayin

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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance has been seen like never before in a detailed 3D scan.

The wreck of the explorer’s vessel was found 3,000 metres beneath the surface of Antarctica’s Weddell Sea in 2022, more than a century on from its sinking in 1915.

The Anglo-Irish explorer was leading an attempt to cross the ice-covered continent in 1915 when his ship sank after being crushed by pack ice.

Now a new digital scan made from 25,000 separate images of Endurance has captured it in remarkable detail.

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"The Trust's on-Ice Conservation team explain the challenges of working on the five historic huts the Trust cares for in Antarctica."

"The Ross Sea Heritage Restoration Project conserves the explorer bases belonging to legendary explorers Carsten Borchgrevink at Cape Adare, Captain Robert Falcon Scott's two bases - 'Discovery' hut at Hut Point, and 'Terra Nova' hut at Cape Evans, Sir Ernest Shackleton's 'Nimrod' hut at Cape Royds, and Sir Edmund Hillary's TAE/IGY hut at Pram Point."

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Say hi to Ernie! We found him outside and now he chases his tail around the house

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Endurance Shackleton's Incredible Journey (book review)

Title: Endurance Shackleton’s Incredible JourneyAuthor: Alfred LansingPublisher: Tyndale House Publishers, IncDate: 1959/1999Pages: 247 Endurance Shackleton’s Incredible Journey (book review) Alfred Lansing, the author, compiled the story of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s attempt at crossing the Antarctic continent beginning in August, 1914. Shackleton had gathered a crew to make a trip of a lifetime…

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How very cool!

Sir Ernest Shackleton's hut from the Nimrod expedition in Antartica.

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just chose peace and love (did not start a twitter fight about sir ernest shackleton)

[sunflowerbower]

Very nearly finished The Ship Beneath The Ice, and for a book that I wasn’t super invested in near the beginning, it’s now made me cry at least twice 👍🏻😅

I think because I read Endurance before it, it’s such an adventure story, and there’s so much going on, that I found this one less exciting, but it got there for me in the end. I think perhaps I should have read something else in between, and it wouldn’t have been such a change of pace.

It’s a very fascinating read though. It’s stolen borrowed from my sister in law, but will now be keeping an eye out for a copy for my bookcase!

Madhouse next! 🥳

[tomcreanstory]

What a great buzz it was finding these two images when researching Tom Crean's life but grainy newspaper clippings are crap quality. I guess they'd never been seen since they were published in 1910 and 1920.

The singular one of Tom here was titled 'The Kerryman with Scott' taken before he set out on Terra Nova.

Other image was taken on the 100th lecture that Shackleton gave at Philharmonic Hall and it's a kind of who's who of Antarctic veterans with Wild, Worsley, Shacks and Tom, peering out behind Hussey and his banjo.

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the original post was about the Silmarillon and I didn't want to derail it but here we go for Tolkien heads

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12 June 2024

Wreck hunters have found the ship on which the famous polar explorer Ernest Shackleton made his final voyage.

The vessel, called "Quest," has been located on the seafloor off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.

Shackleton suffered a fatal heart attack on board on 5 January 1922 while trying to reach the Antarctic.

And although Quest continued in service until it sank in 1962, the earlier link with the explorer gives it great historic significance.

The British-Irish adventurer is celebrated for his exploits in Antarctica at a time when very few people had visited the frozen wilderness.

"His final voyage kind of ended that Heroic Age of Exploration, of polar exploration, certainly in the south," said renowned shipwreck hunter David Mearns, who directed the successful search operation.

"Afterwards, it was what you would call the scientific age. In the pantheon of polar ships, Quest is definitely an icon," he told BBC News.

The remains of the ship, a 38m-long schooner-rigged steamship, were discovered at the bottom of the Labrador Sea on Sunday by a team led by The Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS).

Sonar equipment found it in 390m (1,280ft) of water. The wreck is sitting almost upright on a seafloor that has been scoured at some point in the past by the passing of icebergs.

The main mast is broken and hanging over the port side, but otherwise, the ship appears to be broadly intact.

Quest was being used by Norwegian sealers in its last days. Its sinking was caused by thick sea-ice, which pierced the hull and sent it to the deep.

The irony, of course, is this was the exact same damage inflicted on Shackleton's Endurance - the ship he used on his ill-fated Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917.

Fortunately, the crews of both Endurance, in 1915, and Quest, in 1962, survived.

Indeed, many of the men who escaped the Endurance sinking signed up for Shackleton's last polar mission in 1921-1922, using Quest.

His original plan had been to explore the Arctic, north of Alaska, but when the Canadian government withdrew financial support, the expedition headed south in Quest to the Antarctic.

The new goal was to map Antarctic islands, collect specimens and look for places to install infrastructure, such as weather stations.

Shackleton never made it, however, struck down by heart failure in the Port of Grytviken on the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia, the last stop before reaching the White Continent. He was just 47 years old.

After his death, Quest was involved in other important expeditions, including the 1930-31 British Arctic Air Route Expedition led by British explorer Gino Watkins, who himself tragically died aged 25 while exploring Greenland.

Quest was also employed in Arctic rescues and served in the Royal Canadian Navy during WWII, before being turned over to the sealers.

The RCGS team members carried out extensive research to find Quest's last resting place.

Information was gathered from ship's logs, navigation records, photographs, and documents from the inquiry into her loss.

The calculated sinking location in the Labrador Sea was pretty much spot on, although the exact co-ordinates are being held back for the time being.

A second visit to the wreck, possibly later this year, will do a more complete investigation.

"Right now, we don't intend to touch the wreck. It actually lies in an already protected area for wildlife, so nobody should be touching it," associate search director Antoine Normandin said.

"But we do hope to go back and photograph it with a remotely operated vehicle, to really understand its state."

Alexandra Shackleton is the explorer's granddaughter and was patron to the RCGS survey.

"I was thrilled, really excited to hear the news; I have relief and happiness and a huge admiration for the members of the team," she told BBC News.

"For me, this represents the last discovery in the Shackleton story. It completes the circle."

The explorer continues to spark interest more than a century after his death.

Hundreds of people visit his grave on South Georgia every year to pay their respects to the man known by his crews simply as "The Boss."

"Shackleton will live forever as one of the greatest explorers of all time, not just because of what he achieved in exploration but for the way he did it, and the way he looked after his men," said David Mearns.

"His story is timeless and will be told again and again; and I'm just one of many disciples who'll keep telling it for as long as I can."

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Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton CVO OBE FRGS FRSGS (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic.

He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.