South Georgia Island is where Shackleton and his small crew landed, intentionally, in a storm using only dead reckoning in a lashed together boat, then did a ne

South Georgia Island is where Shackleton and his small crew landed, intentionally, in a storm using only dead reckoning in a lashed together boat, then did a never-before attempted 36 hour wintertime crossing over the island from the remote side to the populated side in the dead of winter. They had to do this because their exploration ship, the Endurance, got crushed and sank as they attempted (again) to trek to the south pole. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/shackleton/1914/timeline.html https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/shackleton/1914/timeline.html One of the most amazing things about it is there are a lot of photographs from the ordeal. Despite barely getting off the ice floes and having a low chance of living, they carried with them hundreds of pounds of glass photographic exposures. Why? Because if they lived, publication rights of their stories and the photographs were necessary to pay off the debt they incurred in undertaking the mission.