Shackleton Antarctic bid makes landfall
- Published: 4 Feb 2013 at 11.44
- Online news: World
An exhausted British-Australian expedition recreating Ernest Shackleton's 1916 crossing of the Southern Ocean in a small boat made landfall after a perilous 12-day journey.
This handout photo on February 4, 2013 from Shackleton Epic shows crew members bringing the vessel Alexandra Shackleton to shore at South Georgia to successfully complete leg one of their historic re-enactment, during their expedition across the Southern Ocean to Antarctica.
Led by renowned adventurer Tim Jarvis, the team of six reached Peggotty Bluff on rugged South Georgia, where they landed their vessel in the same place Shackleton and his men beached the James Caird nearly 100 years ago.
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