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Trapped in the Ice. Shackelton's Legendary Expedition to Antarctica

p>The Maritime Museum offers this exhibition, which is an adaptation of the exhibition organized by the American Museum of Natural History in New York in 1999. It relates the story of the expedition by the British explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men who, in August 1914, set off for Antarctica with the aim of carrying out the first crossing of the continent. After opening a route through the frozen Weddell Sea, only 160 kilometres from their destination, his ship Endurance became trapped in the ice and sank due to the pressure of the ice. The members of the expedition were trapped for 20 months. The adventure is related through 167 black and white photographs taken by Frank Hurley, the expedition photographer.

Sailing around science

The exhibition forms part of the activities surrounding the regatta "Barcelona World Race", a new concept of double handed non-stop round-the-world regatta which will bring together the best international off-shore sailors and which will take place in Barcelona. For four months, the exhibition will show the conditions under which an off-shore sailor has to survive during a crossing. There is information on meteorology, the natural environment, the need for sailors to be familiar with new technologies and knowledge of the human being and his survival skills.

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