1st of January
Historical Antarctic
Pictures and Events
Ernest Shackleton, Trans Antarctic Expedition on the ship Endurance, 1914 - 1917.
1908 - Shackleton's Nimrod leaves Lyttleton New Zealand for the South. About 50,000 people from Lyttleton and beyond turned out to see her departure.
2 passenger craft behind the Nimrod and the stern end of a third
at the right side of the picture.
The Nimrod leaves Lyttleton harbour, New Zealand towed by the
Koonya. Nimrod foreground. HMS Powerful behind.