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  • Navigation bar image: The return of the sun. Frank Hurley, 1915. © Royal Geographical Society.
  • The Endurance keeling over. Frank Hurley, 1915. © Royal Geographical Society.

Expedition Story

  • Navigation bar image: Cutting through the pack ice. Frank Hurley, 1914. © Royal Geographical Society.
  • Sir Ernest Shackleton. Frank Hurley, 1915. © Scott Polar Research Institute.
  • Endurance beset, full sail. Frank Hurley, 1915. © Royal Geographical Society.
  • Elephant Island, 1981 (penguin rookery, near Shackleton's camp). © Nancy L. Cooper.
  • The departure of the James Caird from Elephant Island. Frank Hurley, 1916. © Royal Geographical Society.

Visitor Information

  • Navigation bar image: The end. Frank Hurley, 1915. © Royal Geographical Society.

Events

  • Navigation bar image: Hauling the James Caird. Frank Hurley, 1915. © Royal Geographical Society.
  • Hudson with young Emperor Penguin chicks, 12 January 1915. Frank Hurley, 1915. © Scott Polar Research Institute.
  • Sir Ernest Shackleton. Frank Hurley, 1915. © Scott Polar Research Institute.
  • The Endurance keeling over. Frank Hurley, 1915. © Royal Geographical Society.
  • Endurance author and exhibit co-curator Caroline Alexander. Elizabeth Iannuzzi. © Alfred A. Knopf.
  • Book cover for Mrs. Chippy's Last Expedition. © Harper Perennial.

Seattle International Film Festival

  • Sir Ernest Shackleton. Frank Hurley, 1915. © Scott Polar Research Institute.

Fun and Games

  • Navigation bar image: Endurance beset, full sail. Frank Hurley, 1915. © Royal Geographical Society.

Survival Skills Challenge

  • Camping in a bad storm, Antarctica, 2000-01. © Ginny Catania.
  • Shakedown ice tongue, Antarctica,1996-97. © Ginny Catania.
  • Shackleton's hut inside, Antarctica,1996-97. © Ginny Catania.
  • Crevasse, Antarctica,1998-99. © Ginny Catania.
  • Hand drilling, Antarctica, 1996-97. © Ginny Catania.
  • Snow survival: the night sky in Antarctica, 1996-97. © Ginny Catania.
  • Sundog in Antarctica, 1996-97. © Ginny Catania.
  • Penguin tracks, 1998-99. © Ginny Catania.
  • Supplies in Shackleton's hut, Antarctica, 1996-97. © Ginny Catania.
  • Crampons, Antarctica, 1998-99. © Ginny Catania.
  • Elephant Island, 1981. © Nancy L. Cooper.

Polar Fashion: Expedition Clothing Then and Now

  • Sir Ernest Shackleton portrait. About 1909. © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS
  • Antarctic researcher, 1996-97. © Ginny Catania.

Dress the Researcher

  • Stages of dress for outdoors in Antarctica. © Stephen G. Warren.

Share Your Survival Story

  • Nancy L. Cooper on board the R/V Melville, Vulcan 7 Scotia Sea Expedition, Elephant Island in background, 1981. © Nancy L. Cooper.
  • Camping in a bad storm, Antarctica, 2000-01. © Ginny Catania.
  • Drill hole, Antarctica, 1998-99. © Ginny Catania.
  • Plane on runway, Antarctica, 1996-97. © Ginny Catania.
  • Rich Karstens on ridge above fumaroles, Antarctica. © Rich Karstens.
  • Dr. Barbara Fry in Antarctica. © Barbara Fry.

Burke Membership

  • Navigation bar image: Hurley with camera. Frank Hurley, 1915. © Royal Geographical Society.
  • Crean (standing) and Cheetham. Frank Hurley, 1915. © Scott Polar Research Institute.

More to Explore

  • Navigation bar image: 14 January 1915. Frank Hurley, 1915. © Royal Geographical Society.

Press Room

  • Hurley with camera. Frank Hurley, 1915. © Royal Geographical Society.

UW Polar Research

  • logo of the Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington
  • logo of the North Pole Environmental Observatory
  • Ginny Catania, Antarctica, 1996-97. © Ginny Catania.
  • 1997 Australian postage stamp commemorating 50th anniversary of ANARE.
  • Radar Mapping of Antarctic Ice Streams. © Steve Greenberg/PI

Links & Bibliography

  • Hauling the James Caird. Frank Hurley, 1915. © Royal Geographical Society.
  • Crevasse, Antarctica, 1998-99. © Ginny Catania.
  • Camping in a bad storm, Antarctica, 2000-01. © Ginny Catania.