The Constraints Of The Shackleton's Expedition

Lastly the third reason why Magellan led himself to his deathbed. Magellan’s navigational skills were poor. According to Over the Edge of the World, By Harper Collins “he regularly sent small scouting parties in the long boats”, “they would go and come back with news of the findings.. And the rest would follow” Gines de Mafra recalled. This evidence shows that Magellan had planned the way easily, but doing it was difficult. Magellan purely relied on his search parties to go throughout the way. You might argue that he still got through and reached the spice islands, but he reached there with just a handful of men in his Armada.

A. Bad evaluation of circumstances and stubbornness instead of perseverance. Shackleton was ready to depart to Antarctica however; just when he was at South Georgia, local seamen warned him that he might get trapped and advised him to wait until next year. At this point he had the opportunity to make a decision and wait, but due to the compromises reached with his sponsors and the conditions in Britain getting in WWI he took a risk to go forth and as a result, underestimate the situation. This I can consider to be the main crisis.

Magellan and his crew had no fear of what was going to happen to them. They were bold, especially Magellan, when he fought it was 50 to 1, but it was really like 50 vs. 1000, and that was because Magellan had literally no fear of anything and he went at them all. He was so confident that he didn't send

Then they also had to deal with mosquitoes, they were a major problem for the explorers because, the mosquitoes would cause swelling of the face and eyes. Besides that they had to handle encountering many different wild animals. One encounter Lewis nearly died getting attacked by a grizzly bear. To continue the explorers had to try an make good relations with Native Americans and they usually went well except for one incident where they had to fight. There wasn’t any casualties for the explorers but two members out of the black fleet tribe died. They would also get lost an be on the verge of starving. However by the end of the expedition there was only one casualty, Sargent Charles Floyd and it was from a ruptured appendix so for the explorers this was a successful expedition.

In Endurance Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, Alfred Lansing recounts the tale of one of the greatest successes of the Twentieth Century. Ironically, Lansing's detailed account of the 1915 Trans-Antarctic Expedition illuminates the stark reality that Sir Ernest Shackleton's expedition did not fulfill its goal. In fact, the expedition never even set foot upon the continent that they had intended to cross. The outstanding success of that motley crew of adventurers was in their ability to endure the harsh Antarctic climate. Despite having their ship crushed by an ice cap, spending the dark Antarctic winter hopelessly alone, suffering through a stormy voyage in

The voyage of Shackleton and his crew was one of many obstacles and complications. Ice is one of the many kinds of danger the Endurance crew came face to face with throughout their adventurous journey. People who are uneducated about how ice can be dangerous won’t understand the level of danger these men were in on a daily basis. One cannot even begin to understand the threat they were in; the stories don’t even do justice to kinds of things these men encountered.

How is it that only one person died on the journey? Surprisingly, only one person died on the journey and it was from natural causes. His name was Sergeant Charles Floyd and he died from a ruptured appendix.

Lewis, Clark and the others built forts across the Mandan river which was a good water source and a possible place to get fish for something to eat. Also, the people that lived in the villages gave little amounts of supplies and resources that slightly helped them get through the winter then they would have originally

1. This list shows the personnel decisions made by the Virginia Company in terms of their selection of the original settlers of Jamestown. If the decision had been yours, how would you have changed the list to ensure a successful settlement?

He sailed past greenland and iceland but was forced to turn around due to ice blockage. He commenced another voyage with the same company, this would affect his future life. Due to more ice along the way, he was forced to turn around again. He

If they made an attempt to travel down there, they were doomed for failure. Even when people tried to warn Walton that the North Pole was nothing more than a cold, isolated place, he still considered it as a “region of beauty and delight”. In Walton’s mind, the pole represented his key to success. It was the captain’s dream to be the first person to discover the source of magnetic fields so he can feel as accomplished as the explorers he

After continuing their voyage the speedwell had a leak that the people onboard had to choose if they stay in England or they move to the Mayflower. Some in fact decided to stay while others continued onto the Mayflower ship after one month food and water among other resources started to scarce and some of the people aboard were already tired of being in the voyage. The trip took two months they were deaths, and people that made it through the trip were scared about how the new world would be like. Christopher Jones the commander of the Voyage knew what people had encountered during the ship starvation, feared, deaths, seasickness so he decided to land as soon as possible so in November 1620 the mayflower ship set land in Cape

Shackleton?s yearning to explore the Antarctic was born out of his desires to achieve the improbable and attain fame and notoriety (Morrell and Capparell 32). Both the Artic and the Antarctic remained unexplored in the first decade of the twentieth century, and the promises of celebrity, honor for one?s country, and possible wealth were the romantic rewards for the explorers of the day (28, 55).

Shackleton also demonstrated that he was a pragmatic leader, capable of determining a vision and then executing that vision. In a sense, the vision was simple to get everybody home alive. Even that however was a big step, because many leaders would have simply accepted the idea that some sacrifices would have to be made. Shackleton instead determined that his vision would be something that the entire crew could buy into, and that with this buy-in he would be able to undertake the necessary tactical steps to ensure success. This can be seen for example with the trip to Elephant Island. This was risky, because of the conditions and also the fact that Elephant Island has no resources. However, there were a number of tough choices to be made from the point when the Endurance became stuck in the ice, and Shackleton made those choices. He never wavered from the fact that his

Shackleton set out to accomplish this feat of crossing the continent from sea to sea with some of his men, due to the environmental conditions; he lost his boat and had to transport all 27 men to safety. Shackleton had a higher regard for his men’s safety than his own. Shackleton treated his man as if they were friends rather than just workers, he treated them with high respect and not as a resource.