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HMS Endurance laying to awaiting the opening up of the pack Jan 1915
Silver bromide print | 15.4 x 20.1 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2580057
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Photograph of Endurance trapped in the ice, a large plume of ice stands to the right of the middle ground. Shackleton recorded that during the evening of 1 January ’we forged ahead rapidly through brittle young ice, easily broken by the ship’. Hurley had clearly been scouting for striking photographs earlier in the day, as this grotesquely shaped hummock attests, a finger of ice pointing at the ship.
Provenance
Presented to King George V, 1917
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Medium and techniques
Silver bromide print
Measurements
15.4 x 20.1 cm (image) (image)
29.2 x 37.7 cm (page dimensions)
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Alternative title(s)
The "Endurance" laying to awaiting the opening up of the pack. [Photographs of scenes and incidents in connection with the happenings to the Weddell Sea Party, 1914, 1915, 1916].