The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, usually called the Endurance expedition after its ship, was led by Ernest Shackleton and aimed to cross Antarctica from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea via the South Pole. The Endurance became trapped in pack ice in early 1915 and was crushed and sank in November of that year, leaving twenty-eight men camped on the ice. They dragged and sailed their lifeboats to uninhabited Elephant Island in April 1916. Shackleton and five companions then sailed about eight hundred nautical miles in the lifeboat James Caird to South Georgia and crossed its mountains on foot to a whaling station. Shackleton returned with a Chilean tug and rescued all the men left on Elephant Island. The wreck of the Endurance was found in 2022, remarkably preserved, at a depth of about three thousand meters.
Before and after
- from 3 August 1914 to 11 November 1918Western Front
- from 3 August 1914 to 11 November 1918Balkans Theater
- from 6 August 1914 to 10 March 1916Kamerun campaign
- from 7 August 1914 to 13 September 1919Battle of the Frontiers
- from 8 August 1914 to 1 January 1917Expedition Endurance
- 9 August 1914Birth of Tove Jansson
- from 15 August 1914 to 24 August 1914Battle of Cer
- 15 August 1914Construction of Panama Canal
- from 17 August 1914 to 3 March 1918WWI Eastern Front
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- 5 August 1930Birth of Neil Armstrong
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