#ernest shackleton

[the-golden-vanity]

I know Alfred Lansing wrote Endurance back in the 1950s, but it's funny to me that he seems so surprised about the "three girls" who applied for positions on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. If my time in the Terror fandom has taught me anything, it's that the desire to go on a polar expedition in a big wooden ship transcends gender roles.

[ltwilliammowett]

The Endurance a three-masted ship of Shackleton’s 1914-1915 Antarctic expedition

[letmeinimafairy]

Finished painting a set of pendants for a commission about Shackleton's Trans-Antarctic expedition. Endurance, whales, Frank Hurley and penguins. Sea pottery officially captured my brain.

[the-fear-of-art]

Losing my mind at the beauty of these color enhanced photographs of the Endurance expedition by @babelcolour on Twitter. The fact that these are color enhanced and not color added makes their existence even more remarkable. You understand why those first explorers couldn’t stay away.

[gameraboy2]

Photographs of the ship Endurance and Ernest Shackleton's ill fated Antarctic expedition by Frank Hurley, 1915

[amundsenxcook]

» The Terror (2018) – [gif credit]

» The crew of Shackleton’s Endurance expedition playing football (1915) – photos by Frank Hurley

[polarexplorerspoll]

POLAR EXPLORERS SHOWDOWN: BONUS ROUND

[violenceviolette]

British-Antarctic territories stamps from the 2000 Shackleton's Transantarctic Expedition collection

[nopickls]

The heroic age of Antarctic exploration - after The Terror opening credits

[areyougonnabe]

[sastrugie]

ok im back into my polar obsession - i know i missed alot in these fice years BUT im happy to know the fandom is still alive AHHHH

so - please reblog/ like this if you are interested in

antarctica

arctic

polar exploration

scotts expeditions

shackletons expedtions

fridtjof nansen, amundsen and co

belgica

terror the series

and polar stuff in general

cant wait to talk to yall <3

[ltwilliammowett]

It is Ship's cat sunday and here is a pic of stowaway Perce Blackborow on Shackleton's Endurance with Mrs. Chippy, the ship's cat, before 1915

More about Chippy below

The tabby domestic cat had been brought on board by Harry McNish, the ship's carpenter known as "Chippy", and was given her name before it was discovered that she was a male. Mrs Chippy is described as a handsome, affectionate and good-natured cat. He proved to be a good catcher of mice and rats and was a favourite among the crew. The men were amused by the way Mrs Chippy seemed to enjoy strutting across the roofs of the kennels, always just out of reach of the rampaging dogs. What's more, the cat's climbing skills, even in the roughest seas, earned him respect. At the beginning of the voyage, on 13 September 1914, Mrs Chippy jumped through a porthole and fell into the sea. The officer on watch, Huberht Hudson (1886-1942), turned the ship around and had the cat brought back on board with the fishing net of biologist Robert Clark (1882-1950).

When the Endurance, which had already been trapped by pack ice in January 1915, could no longer withstand the pressure and sank at the end of October, Shackleton ordered all animals of no concrete use - three puppies, the sled dog Sirius, who could not be harnessed like the others, and Mrs Chippy - to be shot. In his book South, he later quoted his diary, saying that under the new circumstances they could not have afforded to feed "weaklings". The captain of the Endurance, Frank Worsley, defended Shackleton's decision in 1931 by pointing out that the cat would have been eaten by the dogs without the protection of the ship. In the case of Mrs Chippy and the puppies, it fell to Second Officer Thomas Crean to carry out the sentence.

Harry McNish never forgave the expedition leader. His resentment led to growing tensions between the two men, which one day culminated in an attempt by McNish to openly disobey orders. Although as a carpenter he undoubtedly played an important part in the successful rescue of the entire crew of the Endurance, he was one of the few who were not honoured with the Polar Medal for "disloyalty". He died in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1930 and was given a pauper's burial in the Karori Cemetery there. It was not until 1959 that the New Zealand Antarctic Society donated a gravestone to the veteran. In 2004, the society commissioned sculptor Chris Elliott to create a life-size bronze sculpture of Mrs Chippy, which has adorned McNish's grave ever since.

[letmeinimafairy]

A finished necklace with these painted sea pottery pieces. And sea glass beads of course.

[thegoodthebadandtheart]

call off your ghost

[spacecoffeeandcartoons]

Scott having just the worst time as usual

[dondalsy]

i just made this and it already looks fried