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Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic Expeditions, Pt. 2

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Shackleton's Lifeboat Adventures

Shackleton and his crew made landfall on elephant island, but the spot where they made landfall was far from ideal. The men had almost no shelter from the element or the tides. A lot of the men had frost bite. Percy blackborough, who had originally been a stowaway, was seriously ill. And first engineer, lewis rickinson, also appeared to have had a hard attack.

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