Lot Essay
'We did not move the ship on the 14th, but on the following day conditions had improved, and in the evening the Endurance was moving southward with sails set and we continued to skirt the barrier in clear weather ... Every mile gained towards the south meant a mile less sledging when the time came for our overland journey.
Shortly before midnight on the 15th we came abreast of the northern edge of a great glacier, projecting beyond the barrier into the sea. It was about 400 ft. high, and at its edge was a large mass of thick bay-ice ... I named the place Glacier Bay, and had reason later to remember it with regret.
The Endurance steamed along the front of this glacier for about seventeen miles, and at 4 a.m. on the 16th we reached the edge of another huge glacial overflow from the ice-sheet. We steamed along the front of this tremendous glacier for forty miles and then were held up by solid pack-ice, which appeared to be held by stranded bergs. No further advance was possible for that day, but the noon observation showed that we had gained 124 miles to the south-west during the preceding twenty-four hours. We pushed the ship against a small berg and a blizzard from the east-north-east prevented us from leaving the shelter of the berg (Sunday, January 17th).
The land, when the air was clear, seemed to rise to 3,000 feet above the head of the glacier. Caird Coast, as I named, connects Coats' Land, discovered by Bruce in 1904, with Luitpold Land, discovered by Filchner in 1912. We were now close to the junction with Luitpold Land.
The ship lay under the lee of the stranded berg until 7 a.m. on January 18th, by which time the gale had moderated so much that we could sail to the south-west through a lane which had opened along the glacier front, and on the morning of the 19th our position was lat. 76° 34' S., long. 31° 30' W.' (Sir E. Shackleton, South, London, 1919, pp. 8-9).
Shortly before midnight on the 15th we came abreast of the northern edge of a great glacier, projecting beyond the barrier into the sea. It was about 400 ft. high, and at its edge was a large mass of thick bay-ice ... I named the place Glacier Bay, and had reason later to remember it with regret.
The Endurance steamed along the front of this glacier for about seventeen miles, and at 4 a.m. on the 16th we reached the edge of another huge glacial overflow from the ice-sheet. We steamed along the front of this tremendous glacier for forty miles and then were held up by solid pack-ice, which appeared to be held by stranded bergs. No further advance was possible for that day, but the noon observation showed that we had gained 124 miles to the south-west during the preceding twenty-four hours. We pushed the ship against a small berg and a blizzard from the east-north-east prevented us from leaving the shelter of the berg (Sunday, January 17th).
The land, when the air was clear, seemed to rise to 3,000 feet above the head of the glacier. Caird Coast, as I named, connects Coats' Land, discovered by Bruce in 1904, with Luitpold Land, discovered by Filchner in 1912. We were now close to the junction with Luitpold Land.
The ship lay under the lee of the stranded berg until 7 a.m. on January 18th, by which time the gale had moderated so much that we could sail to the south-west through a lane which had opened along the glacier front, and on the morning of the 19th our position was lat. 76° 34' S., long. 31° 30' W.' (Sir E. Shackleton, South, London, 1919, pp. 8-9).