Shackleton Collection (page 5)

Preparing A Sledge During the Winter, 1908, (1909). Inside the Cape Royds Hut: Shackleton (left background), Bertram Armytage Armytage (standing background), Jameson Adams (smoking curved pipe)

The Full Moon in the Time of Autumn Twilight, c1908, (1909)
The Full Moon in the Time of Autumn Twilight. Cape Barne on the Left. Inaccessible Island on the Right, c1908, (1909). Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922)

Music in the Hut, c1908, (1909). Expedition members gather round a gramophone player. Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) made three expeditions to the Antarctic

Professor David Standing By Mawsons Anemometer, c1908, (1909). Professor Tannatt William Edgeworth David (1858-1934), was Director of Scientific Staff on the Nimrod expedition

Ice Flowers on Newly Formed Sea Ice Early in the Winter, c1908, (1909). Expedition member Bertram Armytage stands on ice covered in ice flowers

Murray and Priestley Going Down A Shaft Dug in Green Lake, c1908, (1909)
Murray and Priestley Going Down A Shaft Dug in Green Lake During the Winter, c1908, (1909). Expedition members James Murray and Raymond Priestley in an ice shaft

An Ice Cave in the Winter, c1908, (1909). Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) made three expeditions to the Antarctic

The Pont Quan About To Draw A Sledge Load of Stores, c1908, (1909)
The Pont Quan About To Draw A Sledge Load of Stores from the Ice-Foot to the Hut, c1908, (1909). Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) made three expeditions to the Antarctic

A View North, Towards The Dying Sun, in March, c1908, (1909). Winter in the Southern Hemisphere, as the Sun disappears for months on end

A Cloud Effect Before The Sea Froze Over, c1908, (1909). Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) made three expeditions to the Antarctic

An Ice Cavern in the Winter. Photographed by the Light of Hurricane Lamps, c1908, (1909). Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) made three expeditions to the Antarctic

The Nimrod Lying Off The Penguin Rookery, c1908, (1909). Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) made three expeditions to the Antarctic

The Gap - New Land, 1908, (1909)
The Gap - New Land. The Party Ascended Mount Hope and Sighted the Great Glacier, Up Which They Marched Through The Gap. The Main Body of the Glacier Joins the Barrier Further to the Left, 1908

Hauling Seal Meat for the Winter Quarters, c1908, (1909). Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) made three expeditions to the Antarctic

Another View of the Crater of Erebus, 1908, (1909). Erebus is the second-highest volcano in Antarctica and the southernmost active volcano on Earth

The Crater of Erebus, 900 Feet Deep and Half A Mile Wide, 1908, (1909)
The Crater of Erebus, 900 Feet Deep and Half A Mile Wide. Steam is seen rising on the Left. The Photograph was taken from the Lower Part of the Crater Edge, 1908, (1909)

The Nimrod Returns, c1908, (1909). Artist: George Marston
The Nimrod Returns, c1908, (1909). Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) made three expeditions to the Antarctic

A Remarkable Fumarole in the Old Crater, in the Form of a Couchant Lion, c1908, (1909)
A Remarkable Fumarole in the Old Crater, in the Form of a Couchant Lion. The Men (From the Left) are: [Alistair] Mackay, [Edgeworth] David, [Jameson] Adams, [Eric] Marshall, c1908, (1909)

The Camp 7000 Feet Up Mount Erebus, 1908, (1909)
The Camp 7000 Feet Up Mount Erebus. The Steam from the Active Crater Can Be Seen, 1908, (1909). Members of the expedition who achieved the first ascent of Mount Erebus

The Party Which Ascended Mount Erebus Leaving The Hut, 1908, (1909). Members of the expedition who achieved the first ascent of Mount Erebus, Antarcticas second highest volcano

The Last of the Penguins Just Before Their Migration in March, c1908, (1909)
The Last of the Penguins Just Before Their Migration in March. The Ice is Drifting Northwards, c1908, (1909). Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922)

The Landing-Place Wharf Broken Up, c1908, (1909). The Nimrod, a 40-year-old wooden sealer: She was much dilapidated and smelt strongly of seal oil, according to Shackleton

The Start of a Blizzard at the Winter Quarters, c1908, (1909)
The Start of a Blizzard at the Winter Quarters, The Fuzzy Appearance Being Due To Drifting Snow, c1908, (1909). Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922)

A Snow Cornice, c1908, (1909). Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) made three expeditions to the Antarctic

A Great Kenyte Boulder Close To The Winter Quarters, c1908, (1909). Kenyte is a variety of porphyritic phonolite or trachyte (igneous volcanic rock)

The Start from the Ice-Edge South of Hut Point, c1908, (1909). Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) made three expeditions to the Antarctic

The Hut, with Mount Erebus in the Background, in the Autumn, 1908, (1909). Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) made three expeditions to the Antarctic

The Night-Watchman, c1908, (1909). Physicist Douglas Mawson on nightwatch in the hut at Cape Royds. Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) made three expeditions to the Antarctic

The Aurora Australis. c1908, (1909). Artist: George Marston
The Aurora Australis. c1908, (1909). Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) made three expeditions to the Antarctic

Mount Erebus in Eruption on June 14, 1908, (1909)
Mount Erebus in Eruption on June 14, 1908. The Photograph Was Taken By Moonlight, (1909). Erebus is the second-highest volcano in Antarctica and the southernmost active volcano on Earth

A Steam Explosion on Mount Bird, c1908, (1909). Mount Bird is a basaltic shield volcano near the northern extremity of Ross Island

The Old Crater of Erebus, with an Older Crater in the Background, c1908, (1909)
The Old Crater of Erebus, with an Older Crater in the Background. Altitude 11, 000 Feet. The Active Cone is Higher Still, c1908, (1909)

Mount Erebus... The Old Crater on the Left, c1908, (1909)
Mount Erebus as Seen from the Winter Quarters, The Old Crater on the Left, and the Active Cone Rising on the Right, c1908, (1909)

A Freshwater Lake near Cape Barne, c1908, (1909)
A Freshwater Lake near Cape Barne, Frozen to a Depth of Twenty Feet. Rotifers wrere found in this Lake, c1908, (1909). Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922)

Cape Barne. The Pillar in the Right Foreground is Volcanic, c1908, (1909). Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) made three expeditions to the Antarctic

Landing Stores from the Boat at the First Landing-Place, c1908, (1909)
Landing Stores from the Boat at the First Landing-Place after the Ice-Foot had broken away, c1908, (1909). Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) made three expeditions to the Antarctic

Mount Erebus From The Ice-Foot, c1908, (1909). Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) made three expeditions to the Antarctic

The Nimrod Pushing Her Way Through More Open Pack, c1908, (1909)
The Nimrod Pushing Her Way Through More Open Pack Towards King Edward VII Land, c1908, (1909). Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) made three expeditions to the Antarctic

The Manchurian Ponies on Quail Island, Port Lyttelton, c1907, (1909)
The Manchurian Ponies on Quail Island, Port Lyttelton, Before The Expedition Left for the Antarctic, New Zealand, c1907, (1909)

Exercising the Dogs, 1936. George Marston leading the dogs down on to the floe from the Endurance. Shackleton is standing on the platform overlooking the gangway

Sir Ernest Shackleton, c1900s, (1936). From Shipping Wonders of the World, Vol. 1, edited by Clarence Winchester. [The Amalgamated Press Ltd. London]

Shackleton Expedition, the ship Endurance imprisoned by the ice is slowly sinking into the Weddell Sea on November 30, 1915

Sir Ernest Shackleton. Private Collection

A Japanese Festival, c1911, (1917). Artist: William Shackleton
A Japanese Festival, c1911, (1917). From Bibbys Annual 1917, [J. Bibby & Sons, Liverpool, 1917]

The Quest, in which Sir Ernest Shackleton set sail in September 1921, on what was to prove his last expedition to the Antarctic, c1922, (1935)

The Nimrod Pushing Her Way Through Open Pack-Ice, c1909, (1928). Originally from The Heart of the Antarctic, Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909 by Ernest Henry Shackleton

The Finding of Hamilton at Lucknow, c1910. The discovery of Colonel Hamilton by his brother after he was initially thought to have died during the Indian Mutiny

Shackletons ship, the Nimrod, in McMurdo Sound, (1909), 1912. Artist: George Marston
Shackletons ship, the nimrod, among the ice in McMurdo Sound, the winter land quarters of the British Antarctic Expedition. Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922), British explorer, Antarctica, 1909

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