Shackleton's Endurance expedition
1914–1916 · Event
The Pole won, Shackleton sets out to cross the whole continent — and never sets foot on it: the Endurance is trapped and crushed by pack ice, and the story becomes the greatest survival epic in exploration. Ice floes, three lifeboats to Elephant Island, and not one of the twenty-eight men lost. 'For scientific discovery give me Scott... but when you are in a hopeless situation, pray for Shackleton.'
On these timelines: The Race to the South Pole, Age of Exploration, England, Master, United Kingdom (combined)
More from The Race to the South Pole
- Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910)
- Amundsen reaches the South Pole (1911)
- Scott's last diary entry (1912)
- Scott reaches the Pole — second (1912)
- Oates walks into the blizzard (1912)
- The voyage of the James Caird (1916)
- Amundsen turns south in secret (1910)
- Shackleton turns back 97 miles short (1909)
Around 1914
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Mexican Revolution (1910)
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Russo-Japanese War (1904)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1910s (1910)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)