ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE AND RESEARCH 



Evans. They were caught in a bHzzard and drowned. 

 The "Aurora" had been anchored in the Sound off 

 Cape Evans, but on May 6th, 191 5, the ship, helplessly 

 fixed in ice, drifted to the north. On June 14th they 

 were off Nordenskjold Ice Tongue. Still drifting in 

 the pack, they experienced heavy pressure on July 21st 

 which smashed the rudder like matchwood. On August 

 6th they sighted Cape Adare, and on September 22nd 

 were between Oates Land (of which a sketch was 

 made) and the Balleny Islands, and for two months 

 the ship was still near these islands (see Figure 5). 

 For a time Wilkes' elusive Cape Hudson seemed in 

 sight, but later disappeared. A very shallow sounding 

 of 194 fathoms was obtained on the Antarctic Circle 

 on November 17th. All through December and Janu- 

 ary the ship was still beset, and finally broke out of the 

 ice on February 12th, about latitude 65° S., and on 

 March 14th cleared the last of the pack ice in latitude 

 62° 2^ S. She reached New Zealand on April 2nd, 

 adding another spectacular voyage to the journals of 

 the second Shackleton expedition.^ 



In January, 191 7, the "Aurora" under Captain 

 Davis (with Shackleton on board) was again at Cape 

 Evans and brought back the seven survivors from Ross 

 Island. 



Cope 



On the twelfth of January, 1921, a party of four 

 under J. L. Cope, of Shackleton's former expedition, 



1 See the account and map in the Geographical Journal (Lon- 

 don), September, 1921. 



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