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-[[File:Lindsey Islands.png|300px|left]]
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-The '''[[Lindsey Islands]]''' (73°37′S 103°18′W) are a group of islands lying just off the northwest tip of the [[Canisteo Peninsula]] in the [[Amundsen Sea]].
+The '''[[Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition]]''' (1914–17), also known as the '''Endurance Expedition''', is considered the last major expedition of the Heroic Age of [[Antarctic]] Exploration. Conceived by Sir [[Ernest Shackleton]], the expedition was an attempt to make the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent. After the conquest of the [[South Pole]] by [[Roald Amundsen]] in 1911, this crossing remained, in Shackleton's words, the "one great main object of Antarctic journeying"."
-The island group consists of one large island that is several kilometers wide, and a smaller island to its west with several nearby outliers further west. The total land area of the collective islands is approximately 2,100 acres. Some descriptions (e.g. Lindsey 1995) include the island group 5 kilometers to the southwest as within the Lindsey group. However, these were later named the [[Schaefer Islands]] by the U.S. Advisory Committee on [[Antarctic]] Names. Available mapping incorrectly shows many of the individual islands within the group as merged together.
+The expedition failed to accomplish this objective, but became recognized instead as an epic feat of endurance.
-Approximately 52 breeding pairs of [[Adélie penguin]]s were present on the Lindsey Islands as estimated from March 2011 satellite imagery. The colony occupies the eastern and southeastern coasts of the eastern island, and most of three main outliers and the northern half of the largest of the western group of islands.
+''Endurance'' became beset in the ice of the [[Weddell Sea]] before reaching Vahsel Bay, and drifted northward, held in the [[pack ice]], throughout the [[Antarctic]] winter of 1915. Eventually the ship was crushed and sunk, stranding its 28-man complement on the ice.
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+'''([[Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition|Full Article...]])'''