Shackleton

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Royal Geographical Society

Over Land
On October 19, 1915, Shackleton surveyed his damaged ship, which would go under eight days later. The men hauled three lifeboats, including the James Caird (above), to Ocean Camp, which was on an ice floe that began to break up in spring.

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