1) Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition set sail in 1915 with the goal of crossing Antarctica, but their ship Endurance became trapped in ice in the Weddell Sea. 2) After drifting for months, Endurance was crushed by ice in October 1915, forcing the crew to camp on ice floes until the ice broke up in 1916. 3) Shackleton then led a group of men on a harrowing open boat journey across the treacherous Drake Passage to the whaling station on South Georgia Island to fetch help for the others left stranded on Elephant Island.

1. Endurance

2. Ernest Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition

8. Tom Crean “The Irish Giant” & 2 nd Officer He took great interest in caring for the dogs on the journey south aboard the Endurance

9. The crew’s smallest member, Meteorologist Dr. Leonard Hussey, & Samson, the largest sled dog

10. Frank Hurley, the expedition photographer

11. Frank Hurley would go to any lengths to get a photograph On rigging filming as Shackleton examines the ice ahead

13. “ The night watch arouses his friends, & they sit in a quorum around the bogie fire, discoursing in subdued whispers”

15. Frank Hurley

16. When the Endurance became solidly embedded, dogs were housed in “dogloos”

17. An iceberg ploughed through the pack & bore down upon the imprisoned ship

18. The night photograph of Endurance held fast in the ice of the Weddell Sea, is one of the most famous & enduring of the 120 images to come out of Shackleton’s expedition

20. Endurance among ice pinnacles: As time wore on it became more & more evident that the ship was doomed - February 1915

21. Endurance is overwhelmed - October 1915

22. Endurance crushed by icepacks of the Weddell Sea - 1 November 1915

23. Captain Frank Wild & the Endurance in Weddell Sea - 1915

25. Shackleton & Wild standing at Ocean Camp in Weddell Sea - November 1915

26. Ocean Camp - 15 December 1915

28. Hauling the James Caird

30. At night we drew our boats up on ice & made a blubber fire to warm our frozen bodies, overhead Aurora Australis flamed & waned

31. Men on an ice-floe among many in the Weddell Sea - 1916

33. Ice canoe floating in a pool near an ice cliff on Elephant Island - 1916

34. Landing on Elephant Island, solid rock lies beneath our feet, this was Paradise regained! - 15 April, 1916

37. James Caird launched: nearest relief 800 miles away - 24 April 1916

39. Men on Elephant Island wave farewell Shackleton as they leave for South Georgia, - 24 April 1916

54. Overlooking South Georgia Island

58. The steam tug Yelcho

59. The Endurance is overwhelmed, October 1915

62. Shackleton’s snow goggles After crossing South Georgia to reach the safety of the whaling station at Stromness, Shackleton gave these goggles to a Norwegian whaler named Harald Nilsen

63. These boots are most likely those worn by James Mann Wordie during Shackleton's Endurance Expedition Wordie was geologist aboard Endurance

64. Frank Worsley used this pocket watch to help navigate the James Caird during Shackleton's historic open boat journey from Elephant Island to South Georgia, 1916

65. This chronometer was used by Worsley during the open boat journey, aboard James Caird, from Elephant Island to South Georgia in 1916

66. Shackleton received over 5000 applications including this letter from 'three sporty girls' who were keen to be considered alongside the men

67. The ordeal lasted 20 months Shackleton kept this diary during the months spent marooned on the ice

68. Map drawn from memory by Frank Worsley shortly after his return from the expedition. It shows the route across South Georgia taken by Ernest Shackleton, Tom Crean and Frank Worsley in May 1916 during the Endurance expedition

69. Shackleton is buried on South Georgia Island were he died in 1922 as he tried to sail around Antarctica