Sir Ernest Shackleton and five colleagues set out on a 1,300-kilometer (800-mile) trek through the Southern Ocean from Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands to South Georgia in order to rescue the main body of the stranded Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917. Polar historians consider the crew's journey through the "Furious Fifties" in a 22.5-foot (6.9 m) lifeboat to be one of the finest small-boat expeditions ever done. The point of the voyage on the James Caird (remember, it's a lifeboat). Was to sail all the way to south georgia island to the whaling stations to find help to rescue the rest of the sailors left at elephant island.
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