Shackleton's Last Voyage: The Story of the Quest
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In 1920, tired of the lecture circuit, Sir Ernest Shackleton began to consider the possibility of a last expedition. He thought seriously of going to the Beaufort Sea area of the Arctic, a largely unexplored region, and raised some interest in this idea from the Canadian government. With funds supplied by former school friend John Quiller Rowett, he acquired a 125-ton Norwegian sealer, namedFoca I, which he renamedQuest. Despite his harrowing experience recounted inSouth, the lure of Antarctica was too strong for Shackleton to resist, so he started his fourth and final trip in the ill-suitedQu...
Chapters (412)(click to expand)
- SHACKLETON’S LAST VOYAGE
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I INCEPTION
- CHAPTER II LONDON TO RIO DE JANEIRO
- CHAPTER III RIO TO SOUTH GEORGIA
- CHAPTER IV DEATH OF SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON
- CHAPTER V PREPARATIONS IN SOUTH GEORGIA
- CHAPTER VI INTO THE SOUTH
- CHAPTER VII THE ICE
- CHAPTER VIII ELEPHANT ISLAND
- CHAPTER IX SOUTH GEORGIA (SECOND VISIT)
- CHAPTER X THE TRISTAN DA CUNHA GROUP
- CHAPTER XI TRISTAN DA CUNHA[13]
- CHAPTER XII TRISTAN DA CUNHA (continued)[14]
- CHAPTER XIII DIEGO ALVAREZ OR GOUGH ISLAND
- CHAPTER XIV CAPE TOWN
- CHAPTER XV ST. HELENA—ASCENSION ISLAND—ST. VINCENT
- CHAPTER XVI HOME
- APPENDIX 1 GEOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, by G. Vibert Douglas, M.C., M.Sc., Geologist to the Expedition.
- Methods Employed
- ISLANDS OF THE SOUTHERN OCEAN
- South Georgia.—Lat. 54° S. Long. 37° W.
- Elephant Island.—Lat. 61° S. Long. 55° W.
- Zavodovski.—Lat. 56° S. Long. 27° W.
- ISLANDS OF THE SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
- Gough Island.—Lat. 40° S. Long. 10° W.
- Tristan da Cunha.—Lat. 37° S. Long. 12° W.
- Nightingale
- Middle Island
- Stoltenhoff
- Inaccessible Island
- ISLANDS OF THE MID-ATLANTIC OCEAN
- The St. Paul’s Rocks
- Saõ Miguel Açores, St. Vincent (Cape Verde), Ascension and St. Helena
- DEEP-SEA SOUNDINGS
- GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- APPENDIX II NATURAL HISTORY
- APPENDIX III METEOROLOGY
- APPENDIX IV HYDROGRAPHIC WORK
- DEEP SEA SOUNDINGS
- APPENDIX V MEDICAL
- Notes on Oils and Grease
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- PERSONNEL
- INDEX
- FOOTNOTES
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