Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-03-30
Great Explorer Expected to
Go Direct to San Francisco
Sir Ernest Shacketon Detained in Sydney BY Arrangements
for Lectures is Unable to Proceed on Niagara as Had Been
His Expectation and HonouIanS Miss Chance to Meet Him

taking stores with them. Next day
Capt Aeneas Macintosh, accompan-
led by two members of the party, left
the ship for sledge trip with the
dogs. January 81 the six men started
on a journey TO the south. They took
with them a motor sledge with an
aeroplane engine.
Aurora Goes Adrift
! All this time attempts to find a safe
harbor for the Aurora failed. The
party OF six returned from the south
on March and were embarked A
week later, the ship being moored off
Cape Evans. four Of the staff went
ashore to do scientific work. A VIC
lent blizzard occurred on May 6 and
drove the Aurora from the moorings
she had taken up for the winter. At
this time Capt Macintosh and two
companions, as well as the three men
who had gone TO the bluff to establish
depot and the four members of the
scientific staff. were ashore. We
saw no more OF Them is the tragic
statement made by Chief Officer r. J..
Stenhouse, r. ". R., in his wireless
despatch from the Awarua radio sta
tion. New Zealand, on the arrival there
of the Aurora. very lame duck"
March "a. 1916. g.. . !
Following the breaking away from
her moorings, as already stated, the
ship escaped serious injury for over
ten weeks, when on July 81, 1915, she
was heavily nipped by the enormous
ice pressure. IL was not until March
Ia of that year that she was released
from the ice, after a drift south and
east of 1900 miles. Under a jury rud-
Ger the Aurora steamed to a port in
New Zealand, having lost her anchors
and being short OF fuel.
Endurance Doomed Ship .... . +. :.
In the meantime the Endurance,
carrying Shackleton and his section,
met her doom. 1t would take several
columns to give details of the adven-
lures of the party and the loss of the
ship, together with the rescue of the
score of expeditioners from Elephant
island. A brief log must here suf-I
flee. Left South Georgia December
6, 1914. On the Sth encountered heavy
pack off the Sandwich group, and the
vessel forced her way by a devious
course 1000 miles through icebergs
January 10, 1915, sighted Coats Land
on edge of Weddell sea--ice so feet
thick, foes often $50 square miles in
extent. Decided to land at earliest OPP
peltunity and send the Endurance /
back to civilization. Discovered a new
land, with 200 miles of coast line, and
great glaciers discharging into the sea-
This they named Card coast. Among
abnormal circumstances observed was
a great migration of seals northward,
which was unaccountable at the
time Experiencing hard northeaster-T
ly gales, took shelter behind large
bergs amidst the surging pack. Event
ually we found ourselves beset in the
ice, which never opened again." is
the way Shackleton laconically related
the beginning of the end in his des-
Patch from Port Stanley on May 81,
1916. Contrary to all expectations of
the Antarctic in early February, the
temperature was below zero. At
tempts were made, when seemingly
favorable weather symptoms appeared,
to break out of the pack, but it was
found impossible to land or extricate
tue snip, anu tneI prepared 10 MinleF
Last Of the Endurance
Once the pack drove the ship to-
ward a great stranded berg, and she
was saved only by sudden change in
the drift. Sledging stores had been
placed on deck, and the dogs trained
for emergencies. Twenty dogs died
from sickness and some disappeared
for 100 days. This was in April. In
June the ice RATED up to a height of
20 feet close to the ship, and in July
the ice rose into ridges 40 feet in
height, grinding into foes ahead.
Thus, preparations for the worst
eventualities having been completed,
the Endurance continued to be the
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