South by Ernest Shackleton

The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition

This is a LibriVox recording of South, by Ernest Shackleton and is available in the Public Domain at Archive.org

Return Of Shackleton From The Weddell Sea

An article from The Geographical Review, Volume 2

Available in the Public Domain from Archive.org

Marvellous Moving Pictures

Programme for a screening at the Philharmonic Hall, Great Portland Street where Sir Ernest Shackleton appeared in person and showed film of his Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.

Shackleton Lecture Tour Poster

Shackleton embarked on an extensive lecture tour in which he talked not only about his own polar journeys but also those of Scott and Amundsen.

Colour Photographs Of The Endurance Expedition

Images by Frank Hurley

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Frank Hurley colour Paget plates of Ernest Shackleton’s ‘Endurance’ expedition to Antartica, 1915

The ‘Endurance’ under full sail, held up in the Weddell Sea, 1915 / by Frank Hurley

Glimpse of the Ship [‘Endurance’] through Hummocks, 1915 / photographed by Frank Hurley

Frank Hurley photographing under the bows of the ‘Endurance’, 1915

New Fortuna Glacier, 1915 / photographed by Frank Hurley

Dog teams scouting a way to the land, 1915 / photographed by Frank Hurley

The chick of the Wanderer Albatross, 1915 / photographed by Frank Hurley

The impenetrable icefield which prevented us from reaching the land [showing part of the ‘Endurance’], 1915 / photographed by Frank Hurley

Alfred Cheetam signalling the Shackleton expedition, 1915 / photographed by Frank Hurley

Face of the Neumeyer Glacier, 1915 / by Frank Hurley

The Deck of the ‘Endurance’, 1915 / photographed by Frank Hurley

A mid-summer sunset with the ‘Endurance’ frozen in, 1915 / photographed by Frank Hurley

The rigging of the ‘Endurance’ encrusted with RIME crystals, 1915 / photographed by Frank Hurley

The Bosun [John Vincent] of the ‘Endurance’ mending a net, 1915 / photographed by Frank Hurley

Glacier, New Fortuna Bay, 1915 / photographed by Frank Hurley

A Sub-Antarctic sunrise. South Georgia, 1915 / photographed by Frank Hurley

The ‘Endurance’ frozen in 76/35 South, 1915 / photographed by Frank Hurley

A mid-winter glow, Weddell Sea [showing The ‘Endurance’], 1915 / by Frank Hurley

[The ‘Endurance’], The pink glow of the rising sun shining on a pressure ridge, 1915 / photographed by Frank Hurley

Sir Ernest Shackleton watching a lead forming, 1915 / photographed by Frank Hurley

Source – State Library New South Wales

Read More – The Endurance Expedition

Obituary For Sir Ernest Shackleton

From The Geographical Review April 1st 1922

From Archive.org

Shackleton Diary

Scott Polar Research Institute ” Virtual Shackleton – articles

Shackleton’s Quest Diary

Scott Polar Research Institute

The James Caird Society

Shackleton : The James Caird Society

Great White South Into The Frozen South