South: the story of Shackleton's last expedition, 1914-1917
SOUTH
THE STORY OF SHACKLETON'S
LAST EXPEDITION 1914-1917: BY
SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON
C.V.O. : WITH EIGHTY-EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS
AND DIAGRAMS
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK
MCMXX
Copyright, 1920,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Set up and electrotyped. Published January, 1920.
TO
MY COMRADES
WHO FELL IN THE WHITE WARFARE
OF THE SOUTH AND ON THE
RED FIELDS OF FRANCE
AND FLANDERS
Preface | ||
CHAPTER | PAGE | |
I. | INTO THE WEDDELL SEA | 1 |
II. | NEW LAND | 19 |
III. | WINTER MONTHS | 38 |
IV. | LOSS OF THE ENDURANCE | 63 |
V. | OCEAN CAMP | 87 |
VI. | THE MARCH BETWEEN | 103 |
VII. | PATIENCE CAMP | 108 |
VIII. | ESCAPE FROM THE ICE | 118 |
IX. | THE BOAT JOURNEY | 158 |
X. | ACROSS SOUTH GEORGIA | 199 |
XI. | THE RESCUE | 213 |
XII. | ELEPHANT ISLAND | 225 |
XIII. | THE ROSS SEA PARTY | 244 |
XIV. | WINTERING IN McMURDO SOUND | 266 |
XV. | LAYING THE DEPOTS | 279 |
XVI. | THE AURORA'S DRIFT | 309 |
XVII. | THE LAST RELIEF | 340 |
XVIII. | THE FINAL PHASE | 344 |
APPENDIX 1: | ||
SCIENTIFIC WORK | 349 | |
SEA-ICE NOMENCLATURE | 350 | |
METEOROLOGY | 353 | |
PHYSICS | 357 | |
SOUTH ATLANTIC WHALES AND WHALING | 362 | |
APPENDIX II: | ||
THE EXPEDITION HUTS AT McMURDO SOUND | 371 | |
INDEX | 375 |
FACING PAGE | |
In the Pride of Her Youth. Colour Photograph by F. Hurley | Frontispiece |
The Leader | 4 |
The Weddell Sea-Party | 5 |
Young Emperor Penguins | 8 |
A Huge Floe of Consolidated Pack | 9 |
Samson | 12 |
Ice-Plowers | 13 |
Midnight off the New Land | 24 |
New Land: Caird Coast | 25 |
Close under the Barrier | 28 |
Trying to cut a way for the Ship through the Ice to a Lead ahead (February 14, 1915) | 29 |
The Night Watchman's Story | 36 |
The Dying Sun: The Endurance firmly frozen in | 37 |
The Rampart Berg | 40 |
A Bi-Weekly Performance: Scrubbing out the "Ritz" | 41 |
Pylon Avenue | 44 |
The Long Long Night | 45 |
The Pups | 50 |
Ice-Pressure at Midwinter | 51 |
Ice-Rafting | 56 |
The Returning Sun | 57 |
Wild and Shackleton in the Heavy Pressure | 60 |
Exercising the Dogs | 61 |
Crab-eater Seals | 66 |
The Beginning of the End | 67 |
"Within a few Seconds she heeled over until she had a List of Thirty Degrees to Port" | 70 |
Almost Overwhelmed | 71 |
"The Driving Floe, moving laterally across the Stern split the Rudder and tore out the Rudder-Post and Stem-Post" | 76 |
The End | 77 |
A Week Later | 80 |
"The Wreckage lies around in Dismal Confusion" | 81 |
The First Attempt to reach the Land Three-Hundred-and-Forty-Six Miles away | 84 |
Ocean Camp | 85 |
The Look-out at Ocean Camp | 90 |
The Emergency Sledges being packed in case of a sudden break up of the Ice | 91 |
The Sledges packed and ready | 100 |
Relaying the James Caird | 101 |
Potash and Perlmutter | 106 |
"Loneliness":Patience Camp | 107 |
The Kitchen at Patience Camp | 110 |
The Stove at Patience Camp constructed out of old Oil-drums | 111 |
Worsley taking Observations of the Sun to determine our Position | 116 |
"We cut Steps in this Twenty-five Foot Slab and it makes a fine Look-out" | 117 |
"There was no Sleep for us that Night, so we lit the Blubber Stove" | 122 |
Hauling up the Boats for the Night | 123 |
The Reeling Berg | 131 |
Sailing South Again | 131 |
The First Landing ever made on Elephant Island, April 15, 1916 | 144 |
"We Pulled the Three Boats a little Higher on the Beach" | 145 |
The First Drink and Hot Food for Three-and-a-Half Days | 148 |
Mount Frank Houlder, Elephant Island | 149 |
Launching the James Caird | 164 |
The Stancomb-Wills | 165 |
In Sight of our Goal: Nearing South Georgia | 180 |
Landing on South Georgia | 181 |
Sea Elephants on South Georgia | 194 |
The Cliffs we descended whilst crossing the Island | 195 |
One of the Glaciers we Crossed | 202 |
A Typical View in South Georgia | 203 |
Panorama of South GeorgiaBetween pp. | 210-211 |
The Yelcho | 214 |
Arrival at Punta Arenas with the Rescued Men | 222 |
Frank Wild, Second in Command of the Expedition | 223 |
Our Dugout | 226 |
The Hut on Elephant Island | 227 |
View of Interior of Hut on Elephant Island | 230 |
Marooned on Elephant Island | 231 |
Elephant Island | 236 |
The Rescue Ship Sighted | 237 |
"All Safe! All Well!" | 242 |
View through a Cave on Elephant Island | 243 |
The Aurora | 256 |
Ice Stalactites at the Entrance to a Cave on Elephant Island | 257 |
A Newly-frozen Lead | 270 |
The Ross Sea Party | 271 |
Mackintosh and Spencer-Smith being dragged on the sledge | 294 |
"The Rudder was bent over to Starboard and Smashed" | 295 |
"Next Morning the Jury-Eudder was Shipped" | 338 |
Ice Nomenclature: 1. Young Ice (Bay Ice of Scoresby) in the Middle Distance | 340 |
2. Light Pack | 341 |
3. Heavy Hummocked Pack | 342 |
4. Hummocky Pack and Frozen Lead of Young-Ice | 343 |
5. Close Pack | 344 |
6. Open Pack | 345 |
7. Very Open Pack, approximating to Drift-ice | 346 |
8. Drift-Ice | 347 |
"The Rookery" | 356 |
The Anemometer covered with Rime | 357 |
Map—The Voyage of the Endurance | 374 |
Index | 375 |
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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