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Endurance departs London the same day Germany declares war on Russia
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Shackleton offers his ship and crew to British government for war effort
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After Shackleton receives one-word telegram from Admiralty ("Proceed"), Endurance departs Plymouth
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With final crew on board, Endurance leaves Buenos Aires, Argentina for South Georgia
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Departs Grytviken whaling station, South Georgia - last time crew would touch land for 497 days
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Enters the Antarctic pack ice
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Endurance crosses Antarctic Circle
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First sighting of Antarctic continent (Coats Land)
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Endurance becomes stuck in the pack ice
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Drifts to 77th parallel in Vahsel Bay, farthest south the ship will reach
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Shackleton orders halt to ship routine
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Sun vanishes for season, not to reappear for four months
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Crew celebrates Midwinter's Day with a feast
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Frank Hurley takes famous nighttime photos of Endurance
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Pressure ice makes the Endurance, according to Perce Blackborow, "literally [jump] into the air and [settle] on its beam."
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At 5 p.m., Shackleton gives order to abandon the Endurance
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After futile, three-day attempt to march over the ice, Shackleton has crew erect Ocean Camp
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With a cry of "She's going, boys!" Shackleton and his crew watch Endurance sink
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Crew again begins march toward open water, averaging just a mile and a half a day
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Shackleton abandons march, sets up Patience Camp
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Expedition Ended
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Blizzard blows the camp north across Antarctic Circle
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In honor of Leap Year Day, crew enjoys three full meals
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On Shackleton's orders, the crew shoots the remaining dogs (originally numbering 69) and eats the younger ones
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The ice floe they are on splits in two, separating them from the three lifeboats, but they get them back
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Elephant Island appears on the horizon
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Crew goes to sea in the three lifeboats, the James Caird, the Dudley Docker, and the Stancomb Wills
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After seven grueling days at sea, lifeboats land safely on Elephant Island
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Shackleton moves camp seven miles to the west, to a spot that comes to be known as Cape Wild—after Frank Wild, who found it
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Shackleton announces that he will attempt to sail the 22-and-a-half-foot James Caird 800 miles to South Georgia
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Shackleton departed with 5 others to South Georgia in James Caird
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After 17 days in stormy seas, and with superior navigation by Frank Worsley, the James Caird miraculously arrives on the west coast of South Georgia
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Shackleton, Worsley, and Crean set off to cross South Georgia's glacier-clad peaks to east-coast whaling stations
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Having trekked without a break for 36 hours over glacier-clad mountains thousands of feet high, Shackleton, Worsley, and Crean arrive at Stromness whaling station
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Shackleton, Worsley, and Crean depart on the English-owned Southern Sky to rescue men on Elephant Island, but are stopped by ice 100 miles short of the island