• Title
  Series 05: Shackleton Expedition photographs / Frank Hurley, 1914-1917
• Call number
  PXA 715
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  1914-1917
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  125311
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album (24 photoprints) - gelatin silver - 22.5 x 30.5 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  1. King Edward Cove South Georgia & Grytviken Whaling Station from where the Expedition started. The "Endurance" is the small craft on the left.
  2. Jason Harbour, South Georgia
  3. "The Endurance" held up in the pack ice, Weddell Sea, December 1914
  4. "The Endurance" frozen in, Weddell Sea, January 1915
  5. The Dogs housed out on the floe ice after the vessel was frozen in
  6. The hold was discharged and converted into living quarters
  7. Hummocky ice surrounding the ship at the beginning of winter 1915
  8. A pressure ridge forced up under the bows of the ship, beginning winter 1915
  9. Midwinter - the ship encased in ice, 1915
  10. A glacier iceberg that split up the floe ice and threatened to overwhelm the ship
  11. At the close of winter the ice seriously began to menace the ship, 1915 (flashlight study)
  12. Tongues of ice were driven below the ship forcing her up onto the floe & throwing her onto the beam ends
  13. Sir E Shackleton & Worsley watching the ice breaking up around the ship
  14. Then a great wave of ice bore down upon us - we knew the end had come
  15. "The Endurance" crushed in mid-sea by the pressure ice
  16. Ocean Camp, where the party dwelt for 6 months on the drifting sea ice
  17. The way to the land - 350 miles - was impassable on account of its frightful and rough surface
  18. Sir Ernest Shackleton (right) & Hurley in front of their camp, the improvised cooking stove is in the centre
  19. The peaks of Elephant Island
  20. The party after five days and nights spent in the open boats reach Elephant Island - they are partaking of the first hot food
  21. The members after three months on Elephant Island
  22. The glacier behind our hut at Cape Wild, Elephant Island
  23. The coast looking east from Cape Wild, Elephant Island
  24. Rescued after five months marooned on the Island, by the Chilean trawler, Yetcho
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
• General note
  
  Titled on album cover
  Captions below each image
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823884
• Name
  Endurance (ship)
  Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962
  Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917)
  Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  Photograph albums.
  Portraits.
  
• Topic
  interiors
  camps
  eating & drinking
  expeditions
  groups (people)
  huskies
  icebergs
  icefloes
  pack-ice
  ships
  
• Place
  Antarctica.
  

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