Question

You have begun to examine Frank Hurley’s photographs included in Jennifer Armstrong’s Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World and considered how they help to develop the text’s ideas. This task is an opportunity for you to explain how the information presented in those images together with Armstrong’s words develop the setting and individuals of the book. This task will also give you an opportunity to use the explanatory writing you’ll use to craft your research essay for the End-of-Module Task.

Answer 1

Answer:

This group, sailing on the Aurora, made it to the Ross Sea and set out some of the supply caches, but not did finish before the ice tore the Aurora from its moorings and dragged it for 315 days. The Aurora finally escaped and limped back to New Zealand, leaving its supply mission incomplete.

Answer 2

Answer:

In August 1914, Ernest Shackleton and 27 men sailed from England in an attempt to become the first team of explorers to cross Antarctica. Five months later and still 100 miles from land, their ship, Endurance, became trapped in ice.