Shackleton’s Last Voyage

Record summary

Shackleton’s Last Voyage records the 1921–1922 expedition of the Quest, during which Ernest Shackleton died at South Georgia. The expedition’s changing objectives, rough seas and the leader’s death contributed to the continuing legendary image of Shackleton and to narratives of Antarctic endurance. It is a useful maritime catastrophe and memory lead, though the voyage was not a flood event and the extraordinary elements belong to later heroic interpretation rather than paranormal evidence. Researchers should compare expedition members’ accounts with the edited official narrative and later biographies.