#Shackleton

[nomilkinmyteaplease]

Endurance in a new 3d scan by the Falkland Maritime Heritage Trust

[ernest-shackleton]

Hes truly such a bro

[the-fear-of-art]

Losing my mind at the beauty of these color enhanced photographs of the Endurance expedition by @babelcolour on Twitter. The fact that these are color enhanced and not color added makes their existence even more remarkable. You understand why those first explorers couldn’t stay away.

[polarpics]

Ernest Shackleton on the Morning with surgeon Davidson after being invalided home from the Discovery, 1903

[violenceviolette]

British-Antarctic territories stamps from the 2000 Shackleton's Transantarctic Expedition collection

[photomatt]

Looking for a few good folks to help with one of the largest migrations in history, 500M+ Tumblr blogs to WordPress.

[mytortoisegotstuckinatupperware]

GUYS NO

[estroge-nt]

My first tiny ambrotype!! When my large camera is complete I should be able to make 4x5 size ambrotypes. The photo is of The endurance on the Trans-antarctic expedition

[croziers-compass]

I cannot stop thinking about how the Antarctic men of the Shackleton traded things to one another and sort of created their own exchanged. The idea that these men thought of things to gift one another and created a social connection to one another by picking out their own personal belongings or rocks or items. And they gave them as gifts to one another. Effectively giving them meaning to be alive and to carry on. And then I think about items and the things the men of the Franklin Expedition probably gave one another. Clothing. Books. Cups. Tobacco. Chocolate. Things to give. Things to give. Even in the worst of it all there is something they can give. And they gave. To one another.

[antarcticconfessions]

"I want to grab Ernest Shackleton's luscious tits while I bounce on it insolvently"

[seagulls-paradise]

in 1915, Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition ship 'Endurance' became frozen in the Weddell Sea pack ice, she was "like an almond in a piece of toffee" wrote the ships storekeeper.

The 'Endurance' was a days sail away from her destination when the ice closed in. She had already battled through a thousand miles of pack ice over six weeks. This significantly set back Shackleton's expedition plans and ultimately lead to one of the greatest survival stories of all time. By the end of February 1915, temperatures had fallen dramatically securing the ship in the ice for the winter.

[ernest-shackleton]

Orde-Lees cruising around in the fuck ass car!!!!

(feat. one of the first ever Oop I'm in front of the camera*awkward run out of frame*)

[worstjourney]

Radio 3 aired a whole hour+ programme of music and reading about and inspired by Antarctica.

If you call to mind an image of Antarctica, it is likely you will come up with something informed by the heroic but ultimately unsuccessful Endurance Expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton. That’s because the extraordinary photographs and film from that trip planted the so-called White Continent in our imaginations for ever. Shackleton, who was born in Ireland in February 1874 before moving to London as a boy, might be best known for that failed trip but the fact that his crew survived, when so many did not, is now seen as a credit to his exceptional leadership skills. Today’s Words and Music is a tribute to the frozen landscape that inspired the heroic age of exploration. It is not just remote - it contains the world's highest, driest, coldest and windiest places. And these days it’s a hub of scientific discovery, international diplomacy and environmental change too. We’ll hear fiction from Beryl Bainbridge to Edgar Allan Poe, poetry from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Derek Mahon, memoir from Jenny Diski and Sara Wheeler as well David Attenborough, Maori scientists and other Polar Explorers. Alongside you’ll hear hugely varied music inspired by Antarctica from Vaughan Williams to Tanya Ekanayaka, from The Muppets to Nigel Westlake and Cab Calloway. Our readers are Jessica Turner and John Lightbody.

[polarpics]

Shackleton, Worsley & Crean after the crossing of South Georgia (1916)

[the-meri-rose]

Made an improbable find at a northern LP Michigan thrift store! "Mrs. Chippy's Last Expedition". It's written as if it were a real archived polar diary, complete with an introduction "written" by Lord Mouser-Hunt.

I'm about 30 pages in, and I don't think this book would make much sense to an actual kid or tween. But it is undeniably very cute and it was 53 cents.

[renaultphile]

Ernest Shackleton's last voyage

“4th January 1922: At last, after 16 days of turmoil and anxiety, on a peaceful sun-shining day, we came to anchor in Grytviken.  A wonderful evening.  In the darkening twilight I saw a lone star hover, gem-like, above the bay"

Shackleton's last diary entry, written on board The Quest in Grytviken, South Georgia, 102 years ago today