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 ...

Shackleton and his crew piled into three lifeboats, then made a difficult five-day journey to uninhabited Elephant Island. There, they survived on seal, seaweed and penguins. With no hope of being ...

Once Shackleton decides to relocate and try to reach Elephant Island, their journey to safety is truly epic. Although all 28 ...

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 men floated on an ice floe and used lifeboats to reach the uninhabited Elephant Island. Shackleton and a few crew members then embarked on a risky trek across hundreds of miles of violent seas ...

when they reached the uninhabited Elephant Island, about 150 miles (241 kilometers) off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. Realizing the dire situation, Shackleton set out with five other crew ...

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 ...