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Endurance departs London.
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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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The crewDeparts Grytviken whaling station, South Georgia. Little did they know it would be the last time crew would touch land for 497 days.
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The crew enters the Antarctic pack ice.
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Endurance crosses Antarctic Circle.
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The crew sees sighting of Antarctic for the first time.
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The sun vanishes for the season and does not to appear for four months.
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Crew celebrates Midwinter's Day with a feast.
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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 single cry of "She's going, boys!" Shackleton and his crew watch Endurance sink.
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Shackleton abandons march, sets up Patience Camp.
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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 crew spots Elephant Island.
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After seven grueling days at sea, lifeboats land safely on Elephant Island.
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Shackleton and five others depart for South Georgia in.
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After 17 days in stormy seas, and with superior navigation by Frank Worsley, the crew miraculously arrived on the west coast of South Georgia.
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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.
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Shackleton arrives with the other men which rescued his crew back on Elephant Island, 22 months after they'd set out from South Georgia.