![]() ![]() In 1913, he announced his plans for an expedition, and by August 1914, he’d had the ship, the crew, and the funding to set out from Britain. The only thing left to do was traverse the frozen continent. ![]() Ernest Henry Shackleton wanted to be the first to land on the Antarctic, but two other explorers beat him to the ice. ![]() She then paints a vivid picture of the cold temperatures (sometimes 100 degrees below zero Fahrenheit in the winter), the cold cold wind (almost 200 miles per hour), and the freezing waters (2 square miles every minute in the winter, creating a frozen sea of 7 million square miles). Summary: In the opening pages of Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World, Jennifer Armstrong asks readers to “just imagine yourself in the most hostile place on earth.” But she backs up to explain that the most hostile place is not a hot desert, it’s the coldest desert, even worse than its northernmost glacial sister. ![]()
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