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The Story of Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance

Dies ist eine der aufregendsten Überlebensgeschichten aller Zeiten. Ein Schiff, die Endurance, geht im Eis unter und die Mannschaft wird mit eigenen Kräften und unter der Führung des Polarforschers Ernest Shackleton nach fast zwei Jahren gerettet.

This is one of the most exciting survival stories of all time. A ship, the Endurance, sinks into the ice and the crew is rescued with their own forces and under the leadership of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton after almost two years.

Ship on Ice

Shackelton’s Expedition with the Endurance

The Story of Ernest Shackelton,

Sein Schicksal und sein Ruhm

His fate and his fame

The Story

Ernest Shackelton

Irishman,

born in Kilkea, Feb, 15, 1874

His Mission

The first crossing of the South Pole

The Man

His Crew

February 17, 1914

His Ship

The Endurance

Built in Norway Dez. 12, 1912

It was 43.8 m long, 7.62 m wide and weighed 350 tons.

The Year

Leaving Stromness, South Georgia, December, 5, 1914

Stromness, Whaling Station

Ship on Ice

Endurance trapped in ice,

January 18, 1915

Last trials to free the ship

Unable to move

Floating with the shelf

The advantage No. 1:

The Weddell Sea iceshelf ist turning clockwise

The ship was trapped, but it moved along the coast.

The Photograph

Frank Hurley (1885 – 1962)

The photographic genius

27 Men and everyone was rescued

Waiting in the Pack Ice

The Side Drift

And then, the ship leaned aside

And the Endurance was crushed by the ice

An on November 21, 1915 the ship sank

The Patience Party

The Crew was alone on ice and had to drift on the ice shelfs

As the ice shelfs broke, the crew had to continue the journey on the three life boats the rescued from the Endurance

They reached Elephant Island

On April 15, 1916

The James Caird

On April 24, 1916 Ernest Shackelton and six members of the crew leaved Elephant Island on a small boat “James Caird” to call help in South Georgia.

A James Caird Replica 7,20m x 2,0m

„The boat journey promised even worse hardships than those through which we had but recently passed. Yet so strong was the men’s affection for Shackleton, so great was their loyalty to him, that they responded as though they had not undergone any of the experiences that so often destroy those sentiments. They were as eager to accompany him as they had been on the first of August, 1914, the day upon which we had sailed nearly two years before.“

„Die Bootsfahrt versprach noch schlimmere Strapazen als die, durch die wir erst kürzlich gegangen waren. Doch die Zuneigung der Männer zu Shackleton war so stark, so groß war ihre Loyalität zu ihm, dass sie reagierten, als hätten sie keine der Erfahrungen gemacht, die so oft diese Gefühle zerstören. Sie waren genauso begierig darauf, ihn zu begleiten wie am 1. August 1914, dem Tag, an dem wir fast zwei Jahre zuvor gefahren waren.“

Meanwhile the crew had to wait

Under the two remaining boats

The Rescue

The journey was 1.500 km or 800 Seamiles long.

And they reached South Georgia on Mai 10, 1916, but the whale station Stromness was 51km (32 Miles) away.

Shackelton left 3 men back and travelled further by foot,

until they reached Stromness on Mai 20, 1916.

On August 30, 1916 all of his crew members could be fetched up on Elephant Island and brought to Chile

Am 30. August 1916 konnten alle seine Besatzungsmitglieder auf der Elefanteninsel abgeholt und nach Chile gebracht werden.

Five years later, on January 22, 1922, Shackelton died of a heart attack and was buried on the island of South Georgia at his wife’s request.

Fünf Jahre später, am 22. Januar 1922, verstarb Shackelton an einem Herzinfarkt und wurde auf Wunsch seiner Frau auf der Insel South Georgia begraben.

AI Images

The AI can’t begin to understand what really happened

Der KI kann nicht annähernd verstehen, was wirklich passiert ist

Salty Seawater / Salziges Meerwasser

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