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petronius

(26,603 posts)
Sat Nov 21, 2015, 03:32 AM Nov 2015

Stark images of Shackleton's struggle



http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34856379

A century ago a ship sank beneath the ice of the Weddell Sea off Antarctica. Sir Ernest Shackleton had been counting on Endurance to help him make it ashore, ahead of a trek across the continent past the South Pole.

Now, newly digitised images capturing the last days of Endurance, and the crew's subsequent struggle to stay alive, are on show at the Royal Geographical Society in London.

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A bunch here that I'd not seen before...
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