Page 95. Focus Your Attention. Part A. TRY IT

Unit 10

page 95

focus your attention

part a: try it

this time we’re going to talk about Ernest Shackleton and his trip on the ship the endurance.

the endurance left London on August 1, 1914.

it took them over four months to reach the Antarctic Circle.

First, they sailed to buenos aires, Argentina, where they picked up more men for their crew.

they left buenos aires on October 26 and stopped at a whaling station and South Georgia; a place where whaling boat stopped while hunting whales in the Atlantic Ocean.

this was the last stop before Antarctica where any people lived.

so on December 5, the crew said goodbye to the people at the whaling station and sailed toward Antarctica.

it was the last time they would see any other people for quite some time.