In 1914, Ernest Shackleton set of on an exploration across the antarctic. In 1915, his ship, Endurance, became trapped in the ice, and it's crew was stuck. Ten months later there ship sank, and Shackletons crew was forced to live on a iceberg. They reached Elephant Island in april of 1916 using three lifeboats. Shackleton promised to found help. In a small boat with five crew members, he spent 16 days crossing 800 miles of ocean. The remaining men were than rescued on August of 1916. Amazingly, Shackleton did not loose anyone on the trip.
Hundreds of boats came together to help the city, helping in any way they could. The boat captains in the documentary explained that they never seen so many boats at one time in the same location. Each boat would take as many people that they could fit on their boat it was the largest sea evacuation in history. Five hundred thousand people were evacuated in 9 hours more that the evacuation of Dunkirk in World War II where three hundred thousand people were saved over nine
to Alaska and was in the frontier. Unfortunately he was unable to survive, dieing of starvation.
fighting kept him alive on the water. Later, the Japanese seized him and forced him to
Nasht’s depiction of Frank Hurley’s journey into Antarctica raises the importance of discovering new ideas and values which shape his journey as an “odyssey”, a classical allusion to Homer’s epic poem, His journey of discovery challenges many assumptions and questions Hurley’s society had sought represented by epic film music and indirect interviews to portray the feeling of excitement and adventure, portraying an assumption that discovery can lead to new experiences and new worlds. Nasht’s juxtaposition of Hurley’s dramatic archival footage to the modern recreation of the journey evokes a sense of excitement and a change in beliefs, where previously people didn’t know what adventure felt like. Images of large and grand icebergs signify a new sense of discovery in an uncharted world which becomes important to those on the ship, Endurance knowing that they are risking their lives to experience the nature of the world that no one has even sought and being the first to answer the challengers of discovering and exploring new worlds and experiences. The clever synthesis from shifts of Elephant Island to Hurley’s daughters provokes a sense of discovering something personal, as “the places he explored left a mark on him and his photography”, where Hurley’s daughters rediscover their father’s experiences. The daughters are overwhelmed by the desolation of the ice and space, which becomes significant for them, as they relive the memories and the experience of their father when he journeyed to
How Shackleton had planned his Expedition couldn’t have been any more different than how it turned out. Not only did he not cross the Antarctic continent nor did he reach the South Pole. Shackleton, from previous experiences could have expected that. The fact that he didn’t reach the South Pole was something else. The trans-Antarctic expedition making him famous because of his absolute failure was something he would have never expected. Nor the fact that his successful leadership style, that saved his whole crew, would be studied over a 100 years later. This article is about The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition and the reasons and influences that drove him to attempt this significant task. Although he failed his legacy will live.
American history is accompanied by a long list of explorers who first discovered and who explored the massive continent. All of the explorers had an impact on the development of America. The Lewis and Clark expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery, stands prominently at the top part of this list. The Lewis and Clark Expedition has had a significant political, social, and economic effect on America. They were the first to map out the west and set off westward expansion. Without the success of the expedition growth of America would have taken five times as long, as predicted by Thomas Jefferson.
David George, a significant person in religious history, was born in 1742 in Essex County, Virginia. He was the son of two African slaves John and Judith. As a young slave, David would fetch water and pick cotton with age he progressed to join the adults in the tobacco and cornfields. His master was a very bad towards his slaves ; George faced many violent situations growing up. He witnessed his mother and brother being beaten. Their slave owner would whip them up to 500 times, after receiving lashes salt and water would be whipped in with a rag. David had also been whipped, “till the blood has run down over my waistband”(Sanneh). George’s greatest grief was watching his mother be beaten and hearing her begging for his mercy. In 1762, at the age of nineteen, driven away by his master he ran away into the ownership of George Galphin in South Carolina. Under new ownership, George now faced a spiritual pace of life for the rest of his life.
In 1915, while amidst their expedition, the ship, Endurance, become lodged in a pack of ice. They tried to wait it out, through a winter of darkness, and even though the Endurance was drifting northward, the ice was too much for the Endurance to withstand. The ice broke the Endurance in half, forcing the dogs and crew off the ship. They would end up spending months trying to find land.
If you struggle while paddling across a clear lake, I wouldn’t recommend crossing Drake’s Passage. After reading any description of the passage, one would warily wonder what other dangers the depths hide and why Sir Ernest Shackleton would ever cross it in this condition, a decision I whole-heartedly agree with. Despite the harsh conditions, the desolate attitude of my crew and slim chance of survival, Shackleton pressed on. A feat that seems downright inhuman once you hear of the odds stacked against him. Between waves that can swallow you whole, unpredictable weather systems and waters that are among the coldest on Earth, to even fathom crossing without the proper equipment and years of experience is impossible.
The Endurance, the vessel carrying the men and the title of the expedition, was named by Shackleton after his family motto?Fortitudine Vincimus (By endurance we conquer) (Perkins 41). To relate the significant factors of Shackleton?s leadership during the Endurance expedition, it is necessary to summarize the timeline of the events. A chronological timeline of the expedition is included at the end of this paper.
Quite possibly one of the most important purchases in the history of The United States was the one in which Thomas Jefferson enabled the size of the country to double. The territory was the Louisiana Territory, the 820,000 square mile piece of land was bought for 15 million dollars which equaled out to about three cents an acre. The United States originally only wanted to buy the port of New Orleans. Thomas Jefferson wanted to buy this because there was a risk that the half million Americans living west of the Appalachian would secede from the Union. Purchasing the port would keep them from seceding because they would then have a port that they could easily use to get to the ocean.
SS Arctic was a paddle steamer which ran transatlantic and mail steamship service during the 1850’s. Due to foggy conditions, SS Arctic collided with French steamer Vesta near Newfoundland in September 1854. There were not enough lifeboats on the ship and when it was apparent that the ship was going to sink the crew of SS Arctic were the first ones to occupy the lifeboats instead of following the women and children first policy. As a result of which, out of 400 people on board only 24 male passengers and 61 crew survived and none of the women or children could survive this tragedy.
Out in the middle of an unknown body of water, traveling distances only judged with elementary equipment, seeing life forms before anyone else on the earth. Covered in a constant layer of salt, your last meal consisted of stale water, sauerkraut and some salted packed meat. The trip lasts for years and it won't be your last. These trips were performed by many sailors but none as important to Oceanography as James Cook.
The desire to explore the unknown has been a driving force in human history since the dawn of time. From the earliest documented accounts, ancient civilizations have explored the world around them. Early adventures were motivated by religious beliefs, a desire for conquest, the need for trade, and an unsatisfying hunger for gold. The great Age of Exploration, beginning in the late 1400s, was an important era in the discovery and development of lands yet unknown to the Europeans. During this period, Europe sought new sea routes to Asia in pursuit of economic gain, increased glory, and opportunities to spread Christianity. Although these were motivations for explorers, the impact from the discoveries resulted in significant changes and achievements that created possibilities and opened a window to a new world for all of Europe. If were not for the superpowers of Spain, Portugal, England, France, and the Netherlands, the world as we know it would not exist.
Not many people in the sixteenth century traveled across the globe. However, two voyages successfully set sail and traveled around the world. The first to travel around the world was Ferdinand Magellan who started his expedition on the tenth of August in 1519. Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who organized the Spanish Expedition (Thatcher). About seventy years later, an English Expedition was organized and set sail in 1577 with Sir Francis Drake as a sea captain (Pretty). Ferdinand Magellan started his expedition with five ships and around two-hundred fifty men, while Sir Francis Drake started his expedition with five ships and one-hundred sixty-four men. Throughout these two expeditions, many discoveries were made. One discovery was land,