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THE news that arrived at the end of last week from the Shackleton Antarctic Expedition owas of an unexpected nature. The Aurora, during a severe gale, broke loose from her moorings early in May, 1915, and drifted in the pack ice, suffering severe damage, until March 14, 1916, when she got free in 64° 30′ S. 161° E., and is mow on her way to New Zealand. When the Aurora broke adrift, a number of officers and men wer'e ashore, including Captain Macintosh, and “were unable to rejoin the ship. The wireless telegrams received seem to indicate that ten men are thus left stranded at the Ross Sea base near oCape Evans. They were probably engaged in depôt-laying over the barrier in preparation for the arrival of Sir Ernest Shackleton and his party in their trans-continental march.
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The Shackleton Antarctic Expedition . Nature 97, 103 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/097103a0
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