81:. As their solid refuge melted under their feet, Holness and the other men of the expedition faced constant dangers. At one point a pancake-shaped plate of ice, on which the castaways had built a flimsy camp, physically split in two directly under Holness's tent and sleeping bag. The fireman fell into the cold water and was personally rescued by Shackleton. The ice continued to melt and the expedition members took to open lifeboats. After a dangerous open-boat journey, the party made land at
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crew to be denied the Polar Medal. The reasons, if any, for expedition leader
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as a tender of the coal fire maintained on the vessel. Although the
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24:(7 December 1892 – 20 September 1924) was an English
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148:"The Endurance Obituaries: Albert Ernest Holness"
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787:Categories
707:Stephenson
700:Shackleton
677:Mrs Chippy
544:Blackborow
489:Mackintosh
246:Luis Pardo
124:References
71:Endurance,
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686:Orde-Lees
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340:Personnel
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273:Cave Cove
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36:Biography
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108:Legacy
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389:Hooke
384:Grady
359:Atkin
721:Wild
628:Kerr
515:Wild
475:Jack
462:Gaze
457:Cope
448:Wise
426:Shaw
160:2016
593:How
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