Famous Antarctic Explorer Quotes

a brief summary of perhaps the most famous Third Man account: that of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton. With their boat frozen in the ice, Shackleton and two other men trekked for thirty-six hours across a mountain and glacier-filled South Georgia to a whaling station. The three men barely survived the harrowing trip, spending weeks convalescing in a hospital afterward. Shackleton and his crewmates reported that a mysterious fourth man had joined them and had walked silently alongside during the latter stages of the trek. The mysterious man never spoke, but his presence was a comfort and helped to keep them moving forward.

The Aurora steams slowly south into the even calmer waters of McMurdo Sound in the southern sector of the Ross Sea. McMurdo Sound is a famous inlet, the gateway to the South, where Scott first visited in 1901. Its most southerly shore is the Ross Ice Shelf and its eastern shore is Ross Island, on which there are three volcanoes, Mount Terror, Mount Terra Nova and Mount Erebus.