10th of May
Historical Antarctic Pictures and Events

Douglas Mawson, Australasian Antarctic Expedition on the ship Aurora, 1911 - 1914.

Cecil Thomas Madigan, ice mask, meteorologist:

    "We have to go out and take scientific measurements in all weathers. Sometimes in a blizzard ice builds up around our hood."

Ernest Shackleton, Trans Antarctic Expedition on the ship Endurance, 1914 - 1917.

1916 - The lifeboat James Caird lands at South Georgia after an 800 mile open ocean journey from Elephant Island to fetch help for the rest of the stranded crew:

    "Clumsy with cold, exhaustion and swollen numb feet we emptied the boat. Hot milk, hot hoosh, up half the night saving the boat from the sea."

They are on the wrong side of the island.