Ernest Shackleton
Short History Of...
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What's Going on at Patience Camp?
Ice has been drifting in the wrong direction for months, so reaching polad island is an unlikely prospect. The three options are elephant island, clarence island and deception island. Deception island is sometimes used by whalers and will have provisions. So there's a small wooden church there. Maybe they can break it up to make a raft. Captain worsley gets out the second he takes a navogational reading,. He plots another course, and the other boats follow. At sunrise, they finally see the snowy peaks of elephant island dead ahead. They find a place to land the boats. It's the first time their feet have touched solid ground for 497 days.
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