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Thursday <strong>May</strong> <strong>10</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 19<br />
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Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
for sunken Shackleton ship<br />
Prof Rack’s wife Ursula<br />
is an Antarctic historian at<br />
Canterbury University.<br />
“She’s been collecting books<br />
about Shackleton for me to read<br />
before I go . . . I would say she<br />
might be a little bit jealous.”<br />
But searching for Endurance<br />
is just a side note to the main<br />
purpose of the trip – studying<br />
Antarctic sea ice and one of<br />
Antarctica’s great ice shelves,<br />
Larsen C.<br />
“We are bringing down drone<br />
technology, which will be used in<br />
conjunction with the unmanned<br />
submarines. It will be interesting<br />
to compare measuring the ice<br />
from above as well as below,”<br />
Prof Rack said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> AUVs will be sent under<br />
the ice shelf into some caverns<br />
of ocean which have never been<br />
sampled before.<br />
Prof Rack said the research will<br />
teach them a lot about climate<br />
change and how ice shelves and<br />
sea ice interacts.<br />
He said there will be a great<br />
deal of preparation before setting<br />
off. “<strong>The</strong>re are a lot of challenges<br />
to prepare for. This is a cruise<br />
into pack ice, which can be very<br />
dangerous,” he said.<br />
And, even after 15 trips to the<br />
EXPLORATION: Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance sank<br />
in the Weddell Sea in 1915.<br />
ice, he still isn’t used to the cold.<br />
“It’s very exciting. For me,<br />
this is the first time on board<br />
a research vessel,” Prof Rack<br />
said, although he has been to<br />
Antarctica several times before.<br />
Following Shackleton’s footsteps<br />
•Sir Ernest Shackleton<br />
(1874-1922) was a British<br />
polar explorer, who lead<br />
three expeditions to<br />
Antarctica.<br />
•Shackleton was knighted<br />
after his second trip in<br />
1908 by King Edward VII.<br />
•Disaster<br />
struck his third<br />
expedition in<br />
1915 when his<br />
ship, Endurance,<br />
became<br />
trapped in ice in<br />
the Weddell Sea<br />
and was slowly<br />
crushed, sinking<br />
<strong>10</strong> months later.<br />
•<strong>The</strong> crew fled<br />
the boat and<br />
lived on the sea<br />
ice until early<br />
1916 when they drifted on<br />
ice floes and in lifeboats<br />
to Elephant Island, near<br />
the northern tip of the<br />
Antarctic Peninsula.<br />
•From there, Shackleton<br />
and five others sailed<br />
1280km in a small lifeboat<br />
Ernest Shackleton<br />
to the sub-polar island<br />
of South Georgia, where<br />
they arrived at a whaling<br />
station.<br />
•Shackleton then made<br />
four attempts to rescue<br />
his remaining crew from<br />
Elephant Island, until he<br />
finally reached<br />
them on a<br />
Chilean steam<br />
tug at the end of<br />
August 1916.<br />
•All 27 crew<br />
members<br />
survived,<br />
returning to<br />
Britain via New<br />
Zealand.<br />
•Shackleton’s<br />
account of the<br />
Endurance’s<br />
expedition, South,<br />
was published in 1919.<br />
•In 1921, he returned to<br />
Antarctica, but died of<br />
a heart attack while his<br />
ship was moored at South<br />
Georgia Island.<br />
•At his wife’s request, he<br />
was buried there.<br />
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