Details

Compiled/​Created

19141209-19160513.

Summary note

Description: Diary account written by McNeish (alternatively McNish) of the 1914-1916 Trans-Antarctic expedition under the command of Ernest Shackleton. The diary records the departure of the `Endurance', the ship's imprisonment in pack ice in the Weddell Sea, its destruction, the journey to Elephant Island, and the voyage of Shackleton, McNeish and three others to South Georgia in the `James Caird'.

Notes

AMDigital Reference: MS-1389.

Original version

Reproduction of: Journal of Harry McNeish, carpenter on Shackleton's Endurance expedition 9 Dec 1914-13 May 1916.

Location of originals

Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand

Copyright note

Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand

Source of description

Description based on online resource (viewed on May 28, 2018).

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