In April 1916 they set sail on three small boats, eventually reaching Elephant Island. From here, Shackleton and five other crew members set sail again across 800 miles of arguably the world’s ...

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 ...

The account of Shackleton’s journey to Elephant Island, then in the James Caird to South Georgia, the crossing of South Georgia and his four subsequent attempts to rescue the remainder of his ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...