[Ernest Shackleton, Captain Frank Worsley and crew setting out from Elephant Island, Easter Monday, 24 April 1916, Shackleton expedition] [picture] : [Antarctica] /

Part of the Hurley negative collection.; Condition: black paint; broken corner.; Published in Argonauts of the south, 1925, facing p. 259. Detail also published in Shackleton's South, 1919, facing p. 160 with the caption: Launching the James Caird on the relief voyage to South Georgia. The boat was but a frail cockle-shell with an improvised deck made from fragments of canvas and packing case lids. The successful crossing of 750 miles of tempestuous icy sub-Antarctic Ocean is one of the greatest feats in the annals of exploration.; Hurley series: Antarctica.; Used with clouds in composite PIC FH/1073. Reshot.; Related photographic print in the Hurley collection of photographic prints: PIC FH/10902.Launching the James Caird on the relief voyage to South Georgi