Alexander Hepburne Macklin collection 1914 - 1964

Shackleton, Ernest Henry, 1874-1922

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Ernest Shackleton, leader of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition and part of two other Antarctic expeditions, acquired Polaris after her owner's financial trouble. Renamed Endurance after the Shackleton family motto Fortitudine vincimus (By Endurance we Conquer), she sailed intending to accomplish the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent. She departed for her final voyage on December 15, 1914 but progress was slow, averaging about 30 miles per day through pack ice. A month later, w...

Endurance (Steam yacht)

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Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition Antarctica 1921-1922

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Macklin Alexander Hepburne d 1967

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James, R. W. (Reginald William), 1891-

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Alexander Hepburne Macklin

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Alexander Hepburne Macklin worked for a short period as a deck-hand before reading medicine at Manchester University. He joined the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition [Weddell Sea Party] 1914-1916 (leader Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton) as surgeon. After the expedition ship Endurance was crushed in the pack ice of the Weddell Sea, the party escaped in boats to Elephant Island. A party of six led by Shackleton made the epic journey from Elephant Island to South Georgia to seek help fro...

Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition Weddell Sea 1914-1916

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Clark Robert Selbie 1882-1950

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