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SY Aurora's drift

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The drift of the Antarctic exploration vessel SY Aurora was an ordeal which lasted 312 days, during the Ross Sea chapter of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-17.

It began when the ship broke loose from its anchorage in McMurdo Sound in May 1915, during a gale.

Caught in heavy pack ice and unable to manoeuvre, Aurora was carried into the open waters of the Ross Sea and Southern Ocean, leaving ten men stranded ashore with meagre provisions.

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5510122854 / 9785510122855
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