Preparing to launch the lifeboat, "James Caird", into the sea from the shore of Elephant Island. One of 79 photographs from a presentation album of photographs taken by Frank Hurley during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-17, while with the Weddell Sea Party on the ship Endurance and afterwards on South Georgia.

Hurley, James Francis (Frank)

South Shetland Islands

Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, UK

Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-17