Scott Polar Research InstituteShackleton items from the Archives
Expeditions
Authors
Articles- About the expedition (below)
Articles from the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (Aurora)
The following 4 articles are from the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (Aurora):
- The original South Polar Chart used during the Aurora Expedition
- A letter about supplies for the Aurora expedition
- A list of provisions and a letter, written by Captain Aeneas Mackintosh
- Ernest Shackleton
About the expedition
The Ross Sea expedition was organised by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton to meet the polar party from Endurance.
It was intended that Aurora would winter at Cape Royds. However, Captain Mackintosh and nine men were left ashore when she was driven from her mooring in a blizzard. Aurora was beset for ten months in the Ross Sea before reaching New Zealand.
Against all the odds, the stranded shore party laid food and fuel depots for Shackleton's expected party towards the Beardmore Glacier. Of the ten men left ashore only seven survived, Captain Mackintosh was among those who died.