New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-02
Lieutenant and Five Men
Then Travel 700 Miles
in Open Boat,
REMARKABLE ESCAPE
MADE BY EXPLORER
Whaler TO Go TO Rescue of %
Men Left on Elephant
Island.

London. June "A long dispatch
from Lieutenant Sir Ernest Shackleton,
who has arrived at Port Stanley, Falk-
land Islands, describes the misfortunes
which overlook his Antarctic expedi-
ton. His ship Endurance was pierced
by icebergs and sanks in the Weddell Sea
on November 20, having been abandoned
BE- oil hands on October p.
Shackleton and his crew reached
Elephant Island on April Ii in boats
after series Of privatons and suffer
ing in the drift ice. several Of the party
being then on the verge OF physical
collapse.
Owing to the seriousness Of the food
situation and the impossibility Of find
ing any very satisfactory camping
place on he bleak coast, Shackleton de-
cided 20 make an effort TO reach South
Georgia. seven hundred miles distant,
leaving the main party on Elephant
Island. in charge of Frank Wild, the
second in command.
Lieutenant Shackleton left on April "a,
with five volunteers. Then ensued a
fortnight Of terrible struggles against
billiards and other difficulties, but
finally the west coast of South Georgia
was sighted. After mighty effort
lasting two days they succeeded IN
Bleaching their boat, and four days later
arrived safely at the head OF hing
Hsakon Bay.
Crossed the Island.
On MAY 10 they started TO cross the
island. reaching the StrOmness whaling
station or May 90. There they secured
an eighty-ton Norwegian whaler Tor an
attempt TO relieve the men lett oehlnd'
The whaler started south with vol
unteer crew on May 26, but found the
ice too formidable for an unprotected
boat. and after several attempts re-
luctantly decided 10 turn north Tor as
sistance, 10 the Falklands.
The party on the beach at Elephant
Island were all well when Shackleton
left on April "a. They had FIVE weeks,
provisions, with the possibility OF re-
inforcing these by the capture OF seals
The work of the expedition TO date,
Saws LleultudHb DheNhANNN++t
discovery of 200 miles Of new coast
line. a complete Astrological survey oil
the Weddell Sea, the elimination OF
South Greenland from the map, contln-
uous magnetic and meteorological OBJ
servations, important biological OBJ
servations, cinema records to October
80 and Photographic records up to date.
No Lives Lost.
So far as is known, not single man
Of the expedition lost his life. Lieu
tenant Shackleton's story is a narrative
of conquest by sheer courage and en-
durance Of difficulties as nearly insur-
mountable as ever similar expedition
encountered.
Starting from South Georgia in De-
cember, 1914, Shackleton's ship, the
Endurance, experienced unfsvorable
conditions almost from the first.
Within a month the little ship was
forging its way through ice foes.
new land, with coastline of about
two hundred miles and great glaciers
discharging into the sea, was discov-
cred during this period. Future maps
will show this latest addition to British
territory, named Card Coast, but will
contain no mention of New South
Greenland, which Shackleton proved TO
have been a myth. Shackleton's sound
ings in the region heretofore charted
on the maps as New South Greenland