SHACKLETON’S EXPEDITION
The hut in the early winter quarters near Mt. Erebus, the Antarctic volcano.
Reproduced from “The Heart of the Antarctic,” by Sir Ernest H. Shackleton. Copyright, J. B. Lippincott Co.
THE “FARTHEST SOUTH” CAMP AFTER A SIXTY-HOUR BLIZZARD
THE SOUTH POLE
The successes of Scott and Shackleton still further stimulated interest in the Antarctic problem, and in 1910 and 1911 Great Britain, Norway, Germany, Australia, and Japan sent expeditions into the field; the United States unfortunately, as in the past, being unrepresented. Four of these expeditions—the Japanese, Australian, Norwegian, and British—selected the Ross Sea region south of New Zealand and Australia for their work; while the German expedition selected the Weddell Sea region southeast of Cape Horn, the most promising of all points of attack upon the Antarctic continent. All these expeditions have now returned. The Japanese expedition explored an unknown section of the coast of King Edward VII Land east of Ross Sea, the Australian expedition explored a long stretch of Wilkes Land west of Ross Sea, the German expedition made new discoveries in Weddell Sea, reaching a point farther south than ever before attained in that region; while Amundsen’s Norwegian expedition, from its base in the southeast angle of Ross Sea, attained the South Pole, December 14 to 17, 1911, and Scott’s British expedition, from its base in the southwest angle of Ross Sea, attained it a month later, January 18, 1912, Scott and his four companions dying of cold and starvation on the return.
Reproduced from “The Heart of the Antarctic,” by Sir Ernest H. Shackleton. Copyright, J. B. Lippincott Co.
SHACKLETON’S SHIP, THE NIMROD