Morale was high; as assistant geologist Philip Brocklehurst recorded, Shackleton "had a faculty for treating each member of the expedition as though he were valuable to it".
Ifølge geologassistenten Philip Brocklehurst var moralen høj, og han skrev, at Shackleton "havde en evne til at behandle hvert enkelt medlem af ekspeditionen, som om han var værdifuld for den".