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Shackleton's Last Voyage: The Story of the Quest

Chapter 3: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
By Frank Wild
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A senior member of the voyage presents a plain narrative of the small ship’s long ocean journey: the outward run, work in sub‑Antarctic and Antarctic waters, and the sudden death of the expedition leader followed by the decision to carry on. The account details encounters with heavy pack ice, periods when the vessel was beset, landings on remote islands to obtain fresh provisions and make observations, and the subsequent homeward passage via several island calls. Journal entries are supplemented by practical shipboard detail and appendices covering geological, natural history, meteorological, hydrographic, and medical notes.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The Cairn Colour Frontispiece
Plate FACING PAGE
1. Sir Ernest Shackleton in Polar Clothing 4
2. Mr. John Quiller Rowett 5
3. A Diagrammatic View of the Quest 6
4. Sectional Views of the Quest 7
5. The Sperry Gyroscopic Compass 10
6. The Enclosed Bridge of the Quest 11
7. The Quest at Hay’s Wharf 12
8. Kerr (Chief Engineer) Examining the Lucas Deep-sea Sounding Machine 13
9. The Wireless Operating Room—The Ward Room of the Quest 20
10. The Quest Passing the Tower of London on her way to the Sea—The Schermuly Portable Rocket Apparatus 21
11. The Quest in the North-east Trades 28
12. The Tow Net in Use 29
13. A Porpoise which was Harpooned from the Bowsprit 32
14. Query—The Boss Gives Query a Bath 33
15. Landing the Shore Party at St. Paul’s Rocks 48
16. The White-capped Noddy (Anous stolidus) on St. Paul’s Rocks—The Booby (Sula leucogastra) 49
17. Commander Worsley Superintending Work in the Rigging at Rio de Janeiro 50
18. The Quest in Gritviken Harbour 51
19. The Whaling Station at Gritviken 62
20. Sunset on the Slopes of South Georgia 63
21. The Resting Place of a Great Explorer 64
22. The Picturesque Setting of Prince Olaf Station 65
23. Prince Olaf Whaling Station 68
24. A Steam Whaler with Two Whales brought in for Flensing—Huge Blue Whales at South Georgia 69
25. The “Plan” at Gritviken, with a Whale in Process of Being Flensed 76
26. Leith Harbour, South Georgia 77
27. Chart of Larsen Harbour—The Entrance to Larsen Harbour 80
28. An Expedition in Search of Fresh Food—Marr, McIlroy, Commander Wild, Macklin 81
29. Commander Wild 82
30. A Small Berg—A Curious “Toothed” Berg 83
31. A Lovely Evening in the Sub-Antarctic 86
32. Too Many Cooks—Our First Deep-sea Sounding 87
33. The Western End of Zavodovski Island, showing Grounded Icebergs 90
34. Sentinel of the Antarctic 91
35. A Typical Scene at the Pack Edge 94
36. Killers Rising to “Blow”—The Quest Pushing Through Thin Ice 95
37. Loose Open Pack—Loose Pack Ice, with the Sea Rapidly Freezing Over 96
38. The Midnight Sun 97
39. The Loneliness of the Pack 100
40. An Unpleasant but Necessary Duty—Taking Crab-eater Seals for Food 101
41. Commander Wild at the Masthead 108
42. Pushing South Through Heavy Pack—The Quest Ploughing Through Heavy Ice Pack 109
43. The Quest at her Farthest South—Jeffrey and Douglas taking Observations for Magnetic Dip 112
44. Heavy Pressed-up Pack Ice, the Quest in the Distance—Commander Wild and Worsley Examining a Newly Formed “Lead” in the Pack Ice 113
45. The Quest Pushing North Through Rapidly Freezing Ice 114
46. “Watering” Ship with Floe Ice 115
47. Emperor Penguins on the Floe: A Still Evening in the Pack 118
48. Frozen Spray 119
49. Commander Wild’s Watch: McIlroy, Carr, Wild, Macklin—The “Black” Watch: Ross, Argles, Young, Kerr, Smith 122
50. Worsley’s Watch: Douglas, Wilkins, Watts, Worsley—Jeffrey’s Watch: McLeod, Marr, Jeffrey, Dell 123
51. Chipping Frozen Spray from the Gunwales 126
52. The Quest Beset near Ross’s Appearance of Land 127
53. Rowett Island, off Cape Lookout, Elephant Island 150
54. The Kent “Clear-View” Screen—Approaching Cape Lookout 151
55. Loading Sea-elephants’ Blubber, Elephant Island 154
56. Somnolent Content: a Sea-elephant on Elephant Island—Ringed Penguins and a Paddy Bird (Chionis alba) 155
57. Shackleton’s Last Anchorage—McLeod and Marr clearing up After a Blizzard 160
58. Sugar Top Mountain, Part of the Allardyce Range, South Georgia 161
59. A Glacier Face in South Georgia 176
60. A Rocky Outcrop in South Georgia 177
61. Distended Whale Carcasses in Prince Olaf Harbour 178
62. Cape Pigeons (Daption capensis) at South Georgia 179
63. The Northern Coast of Drygalski Fiord—Cape Saunders 182
64. The New Type of Whaler—The Black-browed Albatross or Mollymauk 183
65. A Pair of Adult Wandering Albatross—A Young Albatross 186
66. Gentoo Penguin Feeding its Chick—The Chick after Feeding 187
67. On the Way to the Cairn—Looking Shorewards from the Cairn 190
68. Our Farewell to the Boss 191
69. The Settlement at Tristan da Cunha from the Sea—View of the Settlement from the East 208
70. Landing at Big Beach, Tristan da Cunha—A Tristan Bullock Cart 209
71. Nightingale Island—Inaccessible Island 224
72. Wireless Pole being erected, Tristan—Carr and Douglas with Two Tristan Guides, Henry Green and Glass 225
73. John Glass and Family—The Mission House on Tristan da Cunha 240
74. The “Potato Patches” on Tristan da Cunha 241
75. Tristan Women Twisting Wool—The Tristan Method of Carding Wool 256
76. Henry Green’s Cottage, Tristan da Cunha—The Oldest Inhabitant of Tristan da Cunha, Miss Betty Cotton 257
77. View of Gough Island from the Glen Anchorage 262
78. The Apostle, an Acid Intrusive near the Summit of Gough Island—The Little Glen where the New Sophora was Discovered 263
79. On the Way to the Summit 266
80. The Glen Anchorage from the Higher Slopes 267
81. The Quest seen through the Archway Rock, Gough Island 276
82. Dell Rocks, at the North-eastern End of Glen Beach 277
83. Lot’s Wife Cove and Church Rocks, Gough Island 284
84. Lot’s Wife, Gough Island 285
85. The Quest Entering Table Bay—The Quest in Dock at Cape Town 288
86. The Summit of Ascension Island 289
87. The Abandoned Wireless Station on Ascension Island—Flowering Plants Growing in the Volcanic Ash at Ascension Island 304
88. Wideawake Plain, Ascension Island—A Wideawake 305
89. Weatherpost Hill, Ascension Island, Looking East 308
90. A View in San Miguel in the Azores 309
91. Booby with Chick—A Booby Chick 316
92. Types of Fish Caught in the Lagoon at St. Paul’s Rocks—White-capped Noddies at St. Paul’s Rocks 317
93. Gentoo Penguin with Two Chicks—Nesting Ground of the Mollymauk 320
94. Giant Petrel at Nest 321
95. The Surface of a Glacier, showing Numerous Crevasses 336
96. Sea-elephants in Tussock Grass 337
97. The Island Tree (Phylica nitida)—Sea-elephants among the Rocks 340
98. Commander Worsley taking Observations of the Sun by Sextant—Hussey (Taking Sea Temperatures), Commander Wild and McIlroy 341
99. Setting up Kites for the Taking of Meteorological Observations 348
100. An Apparatus for Bringing Up Specimens of the Sea Bottom 349