Interactive Map of Shackleton's Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–17

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This documentary, in the form of a Google Map, enables you to follow Ernest Shackleton's troubled 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Unlike most maps, this map enables you to digitally experience the expedition and zoom in close on each location while you read various content online. Here you can zoom in on the actual locations were they survived on moving ice floes and an uninhabited island after their ship was crushed in ice and sank; and see where they traveled 800 miles across the stormy South Ocean in a life-boat.

Click here to speed up this map, it will take you to the original Google Map, complete with legend.

Please note: In satellite mode, the ship symbols in the lower right-hand corner appear to be on land; even though they are at their correct coordinate locations. However, the ship is actually 20 miles or more off the coast. If you switch to terrain mode you will discover that what appears to be land is actually drifting ice that has surrounded the ship. This block of ice locks the ship in place and moves the ship to other locations as it continues to drift, until the ice becomes so inflexible that it crushes the ship's hull, forcing the crew to abandon ship.

Also note: Those "life-boat" symbols and "tent on ice floe" symbols are actual locations you can click on for more information.

The locations and coordinates were obtained from the following sources:

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#16 - The Endurance sinks.

Book: South! The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914-1917, by Sir Ernest Shackleton


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Digitally walk this expedition in a Google Earth KML file.

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How well Shackleton's Imperial Antarctic Expedition
matches up with the Brine and Thermohaline Circulation.
(Blue line is the Deep Current, the Red line is the Surface Current,
and the Yellow line is the Brine Current.)

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Antarctic Ice Cap: Catlin Arctic Survey

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