Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition [Weddell Sea Party] 1914-1916

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...

Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962

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Frank Hurley, born James Francis Hurley in Sydney, Australia, on October 15 1885, was a photographer and cinematographer. He left school without qualifications and worked in a steel mill before completing his education at the University of Sydney. He then worked for a firm of photographers but soon left to join the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 (leader Douglas Mawson). He took photographs of wildlife and was also a member of the party of three that sledged to the South Magnetic Po...

Cheetham, Alfred B., 1867-1918

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Alfred B. Cheetham was born in Liverpool in 1867. He became a Merchant Navy boatswain working out of Hull, and a Royal Naval Reservist. He first saw the Antarctic as boatswain of the Morning, the relief ship sent to McMurdo Sound in 1902-1903 and 1903-1904 to assist the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904 (leader Robert Falcon Scott). Cheetham was then invited to join the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909 (leader Ernest Henry Shackleton), a...

Wordie, J. M. (James Mann), Sir, 1889-1962

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

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Greenstreet Lionel 1890-1979

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Clark Robert Selbie 1882-1950

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How Walter Ernest 1884-1972

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Wild John Robert Francis 1873-1939

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Macklin Alexander Hepburne d 1967

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Orde-Lees Thomas Hans 1879-1958

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Crean, Tom, 1877-1938

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Thomas Crean, explorer, was born in Ireland on July 20, 1877. He enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1893 and was serving in New Zealand when he volunteered to join the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904 (leader Robert Falcon Scott) as an Able Seaman. On his return to the Navy, he became a Petty Officer and was subsequently selected to join the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913 (leader Robert Falcon Scott) as an expert sledger and pony handler. As a member of the final support part...

Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition Weddell Sea 1914-1916

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Hussey Leonard Duncan Albert 1893-1965

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McNish Henry Harry 1874-1930

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Blackborow, W. Perce, 1894-1949

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Perce Blackborow was born in Newport, Wales in 1894. Eager to return home from Buenos Aires, he applied to join the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition [Weddell Sea Party], 1914-1916 (leader Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton) but was turned down. He came aboard Endurance as a stowaway and was discovered shortly after the ship left South Georgia, when he signed on as a steward. After Endurance was crushed in the pack ice of the Weddell Sea, the crew lived for six months on drif...

Worsley, Frank Arthur, 1872-1943

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Joint leader of the British Arctic Expedition, 1925. From the description of Journal and log-books [microform]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225845758 Captain of "Endurance" on the British Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917, under the command of Sir Ernest Shackleton. From the description of Journals [microform]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225845749 Frank Arthur Worsley was born at Akaroa, New Zealand, on 22 ...

Marston George Edward 1882-1940

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Endurance (Steam yacht)

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