E. H. Shackleton

The British Antarctic expedition, 1907-1909, left Port Lyttelton, New Zealand, on January 1, 1908, for the south.
The generosity of the admiralty in lending the expedition a number of instruments enabled me to make the scientific
equipment fairly complete. The Nimrod, in which the journey to the winter quarters on the Antarctic Continent had to
be undertaken, was certainly small for the work, and left Lyttelton, with scarcely 3 feet of freeboard, a somewhat
serious matter in view of the fact that very heavy weather had to be faced.

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