Glaciers of South Georgia - Fortuna Glacier, Harker Glacier, Hindle Glacier, Lyell Glacier, South Georgia, Crean Glacier, Ross Glacier (Paperback)

Chapters: Fortuna Glacier, Harker Glacier, Hindle Glacier, Lyell Glacier, South Georgia, Crean Glacier, Ross Glacier, Briggs Glacier, Tyrrell Glacier, Brogger Glacier, Twitcher Glacier, Wheeler Glacier, Paget Glacier, Weddell Glacier, Graae Glacier, Keilhau Glacier, Geikie Glacier, Quensel Glacier, Webb Glacier, Novosilski Glacier, Neumayer Glacier, Bertrab Glacier, Esmark Glacier, Cook Glacier, South Georgia, Grace Glacier, Price Glacier, Austin Glacier. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 60. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Fortuna Glacier is a tidewater glacier at the mouth of Cumberland Bay on the island of South Georgia. It flows in a northeast direction to its terminus just west of Cape Best, with an eastern distributary almost reaching the west side of Fortuna Bay, on the north coast of South Georgia. Named in about 1912, presumably after the whale catcher Fortuna. It is the largest glacier on the island, and is notable for two major events in the 20th Century. In mid-April 1915, explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship (The Endurance) with 27 members of his Antarctic expedition became locked in the polar ice in the Weddell Sea just off the Antarctica. In the spring of 1916, as the ice warmed and drifted north, the ship was crushed. The party used the lifeboats to get to Elephant Island, a desolate, uninhabited atoll at the edge of the Antarctic Peninsula. There they were stranded. Shackleton and five others crammed into a lifeboat (named the James Caird), sailed across the frigid Scotia Sea for 800 miles, miraculously reaching South Georgia two weeks later. With great difficulty, they landed on the island's uninhabited west side at King Haakon Bay. Frostbitten and exhausted, with their clothing torn and crusted with sea salt, it was not feasible to set sail again in the wind, curre...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=144212