On 24 April 1916 Shackleton and five of his men began an epic 800-mile open-boat voyage to South Georgia, leaving the remaining 22 men behind on Elephant Island After three frustrated rescue ...

when they reached the uninhabited Elephant Island, about 150 miles (241 kilometers) off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.

Using lifeboats, the men reached the desolate shores of Elephant Island in April 1916. Knowing that no rescue would come, Shackleton and five crew members undertook an audacious 1,200-kilometer ...

the men spent five days at sea in lifeboats before reaching Elephant Island. They landed safely but were still hundreds of miles from anyone who could help rescue them. Shackleton decided to take ...

Over a century after its sinking, the ship of famed polar explorer Ernest Shackleton has been brought back to life in ...

In Ernest Shackleton's view, there was only one course of action. Never mind that it was an act of desperation. He and a few of his men would have to leave Antarctica's Elephant Island and summon ...

Eventually, they found themselves in the open sea. With very limited choice, Shackleton made for Elephant Island; a desperately remote, uninhabited place. Bag 16 sees the building of Shackleton ...

Shackleton and crew were able to escape the doomed vessel and take refuge on Elephant Island. Ernest Shackleton and crew head out from Elephant Island in a makeshift open sea craft. Following a ...

After months spent in makeshift camps on the ice floes drifting northwards, the party took to the lifeboats to reach the inhospitable, uninhabited, Elephant Island. Shackleton and five others then ...

The crossing of the Island by foot followed a 12-day re-enactment of Shackleton’s 800 nautical mile journey in a replica of the James Caird from Elephant Island to South Georgia. Expedition ...

S ann air Elephant Island a dh'fhàg Shackleton còrr is fichead dhen a' luchd-obrach aig', dhen a' chriutha aige.” “It's on Elephant Island that Shackleton left more than twenty of his worker ...