#quest expedition

[zevons]

Frank Worsley, Endurance // Frank Wild, Shackleton's Last Voyage // Frank O’Hara, Poem [Let's take a walk,] // Stephen Spender, Auden’s Funeral // Frank Worsley, Endurance // Frank Wild, The Voyage of the "Quest" // C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves // Bowditch American Practical Navigator, 1984 edition // Carl Phillips, The Way One Animal Trusts Another // Kurt Vonnegurt, Slaughterhouse-Five // Ellie Rowett, letter to A.H. Macklin // Carl Phillips, The Way One Animal Trusts Another

[gryphcase]

Hussey and Questie gouache study :)

[gemlikeabovethebay]

Ernest Shackleton’s final diary entry. He died early the next morning aboard his ship the Quest, which was anchored at Grytviken Harbor, South Georgia.

4 January

At last after 16 days of turmoil and anxiety on a peaceful sunshining day we came to anchor in Grytvitken. How familiar the coast seemed as we passed down. We saw with full interest the places we struggled over after the boat journey. Now we must speed all we can but the prospect is not too bright for labour is scarce. The old smell of dead whale permeates everything. It is a strange and curious place.

A wonderful evening

'In the darkening twilight I saw

a lone star hover: gemlike above the bay'

[violentthingsss]

let’s play wrestling on the ground ‘american football’ in the antarctic together 🥰

(from ‘shackleton’s last voyage’)

[pseudocurios]

stamps commemorating the 50th anniversary of the shackleton-rowett ("quest") expedition. tristan da cunha, issued 1971.

[did-they-eat-polar-pussy]

Did Ernest Shackleton eat pussy?

Yes

No

Voting ended onOct 7, 2025

[laissezferre]

these two photos put together are giving me whiplash. i take back everything i said about the middle part; put it back!

[gemlikeabovethebay]

Frank Wild and Frank Worsley on RYS Quest, 1922. (Shackleton-Rowett Expedition)