"Elephant Island"

Watercolor framed size 21 x 28"
Price: $325
After 497 days without touching land, the crew of the Endurance landed on this forbidding, ice-capped rock. Shackleton set off with a party of 6 on the 800 mile voyage to South Georgia Island in a 22-foot lifeboat. Twenty-two men were marooned here for four months in the wild Antarctic winter while Shackleton made five attempts to rescue them. It was not until August that a Chilean tug was able to penetrate the ice pack and send a boat in for the men. The ship's photographer, Frank Hurley, wrote in his diary: "Such a wild and inhospitable coast I have never beheld. Yet there is a profound grandeur about these savage cliffs with the drifting snow and veiling clouds."


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