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In reply to the discussion: Post a general knowledge trivia question & see if anyone knows the answer without using Google [View all]VGNonly
(8,167 posts)244. Ernest Shackleton attempted to cross the whole Antarctic continent
by sledge. His ship was the Endurance. He would start from the Weddell Sea side, traverse the South Pole, cross all the way to the Ross Sea side. Another ship would land on the Ross leaving supply depots. The Endurance however got stuck in the sea-ice, and eventually was crushed. Shackleton took the 3 lifeboats north to Elephant Island, an uninhabited chunk of rock and mountain with very few resources (small numbers of penguins and seals). Leaving most of the crew there, they then covered over 800 miles in the open boat James Caird. They reached South Georgia Island, crossed its 9000' mountains reaching a whaling station. The party was saved, no deaths.
Iron men in wooden ships!
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