Antarctica Socks
Description: Endurance was the three-masted barquentine in which Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men sailed for the Antarctic on the 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. The ship, originally named Polaris, was built at Framnæs shipyard and launched in 1912 from Sandefjord in Norway. After her commissioners could no longer pay the shipyard, the ship was bought by Shackleton in January 1914 for the expedition, which would be her first voyage. A year later, she became trapped in pack ice and finally sank in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica on 21 November 1915. All of the crew survived her sinking and were eventually rescued in 1916 after using the ship's boats to travel to Elephant Island.
Description: A stylized geometric representation of an Antarctic landscape. It features a prominent snow-capped mountain peak in the upper portion, set against an orange and black sky. The lower section depicts a body of water with icebergs and icy landmasses. The text 'ANTARCTICA' is prominently displayed in white capital letters on an orange band at the bottom.
Description: Endurance was the three-masted barquentine in which Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men sailed for the Antarctic on the 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. The ship, originally named Polaris, was built at Framnæs shipyard and launched in 1912 from Sandefjord in Norway. After her commissioners could no longer pay the shipyard, the ship was bought by Shackleton in January 1914 for the expedition, which would be her first voyage. A year later, she became trapped in pack ice and finally sank in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica on 21 November 1915. All of the crew survived her sinking and were eventually rescued in 1916 after using the ship's boats to travel to Elephant Island.
Description: Antarctica - Little America was a series of Antarctic exploration bases from 1929 to 1958, located on the Ross Ice Shelf, south of the Bay of Whales. They were built on ice that moves very slowly; the relative location on the ice sheet has moved and eventually breaks off into an iceberg. The geographic location has new ice that has shifted to this location and is technically over the open water.
Description: US Outpost 31 also known as “Station 4” is a research installation built by the United States of America located in Antarctica. During the winter of 1982, the outpost was infiltrated by an extraterrestrial being known as the Thing and led to the deaths of almost everyone there, the remaining survivors decided to destroy the entire outpost in hope of destroying the Thing.
Description: This is a vertical design with several lines of text and a central graphic. The top text reads "I DON'T NEED" in large, stylized white letters. Below this, "Therapy" is written in a cursive, orange font. The next line of text says "I JUST NEED" in the same large white letters. This is followed by "TO GO TO" in oversized white characters. A stylized map of Antarctica, outlined in blue with orange accents, is placed in the lower center. Two orange suitcases are on the left, and small airplane icons are scattered around Antarctica. The bottom text reads "ANTARCTICA" in large, textured white letters.
Description: A stylized half-penguin portrait. The background is split into black and light gray geometric shapes that mirror the penguin's coloring. Below the penguin, an orange band displays text in bold black lettering: "ANTARCTICA", "NEW ZEALAND" in white, and "SCOTT BASE". The New Zealand flag is positioned to the lower right.
Description: The wreck of Endurance was discovered on 5 March 2022. Endurance22 announced, in a 9 March 2022 press release, that they had successfully found the wreck in the Weddell Sea at a depth of 9,869 feet. It was about 4 miles south of Worsley's original calculated location. Mensun Bound, the expedition’s director of exploration, said that Worsley's navigational skills had helped the expedition find the wreck; his historic "detailed records were invaluable". Additionally, sea ice, which covers the Weddell Sea year-round and has historically been so thick as to make underwater exploration nearly impossible, was recorded as being at its lowest levels around Antarctica since space satellite records began being kept in the 1970s.
