Aurora akasiya Hobart musi wa24 Zvita 1914, achinge anonoka kuAustralia nekuda kwemari uye matambudziko ehurongwa. Kusvika muMcMurdo Sound musi wa15 Ndira 1915 kwaive kunonoka mumwaka kupfuura zvaitarisirwa, asi mutungamiri webato Aeneas Mackintosh akaita hurongwa hwepakarepo hwerwendo rwekuisa dhipoziti paRoss Ice Shelf, sezvo akanzwisisa kuti Shackleton aitarisira kuyedza kuyambuka mumwaka wekutanga. Varume kana imbwa havana kujaira, uye bato racho, rese, raive risina ruzivo mumamiriro echando. Rwendo rwekutanga pachando rwakakonzera kurasikirwa nembwa gumi kubva muboka revanhu gumi nesere uye imbwa yakaoma nechando uye yakanyanya kusvibiswa; bato rimwe chete, risina kukwana raive iro chete kubudirira kwavo.
24 December 1914