After being stranded on ice for over a year and moving camp a number of times, Shackleton and five other men took to a lifeboat from Elephant Island, travelled over 800 nautical miles in stormy ...

On 24 April 1916 Shackleton and five of his men began an epic 800-mile open-boat voyage to South Georgia, leaving the remaining 22 men behind on Elephant Island After three frustrated rescue ...

Using lifeboats, the men reached the desolate shores of Elephant Island in April 1916. Knowing that no rescue would come, Shackleton and five crew members undertook an audacious 1,200-kilometer ...

Shackleton and crew were able to escape the doomed vessel and take refuge on Elephant Island. Ernest Shackleton and crew head out from Elephant Island in a makeshift open sea craft. Following a ...

In Ernest Shackleton's view, there was only one course of action. Never mind that it was an act of desperation. He and a few of his men would have to leave Antarctica's Elephant Island and summon ...

when they reached the uninhabited Elephant Island, about 150 miles (241 kilometers) off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. Realizing the dire situation, Shackleton set out with five other crew ...