A British contemporary of Ernest Shackleton wrote, "Courage or ambition may take you to the Antarctic, but it won't take you far inside without being found out; it's courage, and unselfishness, and good temper, and helping one another, and willingness to put in every ounce you have."
On the shelves
Use the Library catalogue to locate the following resources on our shelves:
Library archives
- Shackleton's argonauts: a saga of the Antarctic ice-packs by Frank Hurley, with photographs by the author