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1800 miles on a sheet of ice. This advertisement, prepared by Cull Oil, a leading supplier of quality marine fuels and lubricants, is one of a series paying tribute to the great explorers of the sea. It is published in the interest of the shipping industry and those associated with it. GULF OIL TRADING COMPANY. NEW YORK. NY. US. A Early in 1914. Sir Ernest Shackleton set out to cross the South Pole on foot. He planned to march two thousand miles with men and supplies after leaving his ship, the Endurance, in the Weddell Sea. But the ship caught in the ice. broke up. and Shackleton. stranded now. had to find some other way to get back to civilization, at this point more than a thousand miles away. Solution: He transferred his men to the largest available ice floe, hoping it would drift far enough, fast enough. They drifted for a year and a half and covered 1800 miles, reaching Elephant Island just when the ice floe was breaking up. Most of the men could travel no further but Shackleton, after construc- ting a makeshift lifeboat, took five volunteers on an eight-hundred- mile journey across the Scotia Sea. arriving on the island of South Georgia on May 10th. 1916. The explorer then led res- cue expeditions back to Elephant Island and not a single man under command perished.
