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FRANK HURLEY (1885-1962)

Looking south over the frozen sea

14 Jan 1915

RCIN 2580056

On 10 January 1915 the Endurance expedition members first sighted land. Shackleton decided to sail past Glacier Bay, a good landing spot but 100 miles (185 km) further north than his intended landfall. It would prove his only opportunity to land; the ship became trapped in the ice on 18 January, and by 27 January was stuck fast, at the mercy of the ice and current. Already frozen in, a mere month after leaving South Georgia, Shackleton’s men look out over a vast ice sheet, dwarfed by the emptiness of the landscape. The horizon seems very far away.

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