Shackleton's transport arrangements, based on Manchurian ponies, motor traction, and sled dogs, were innovations which, despite limited success, were later copied by Scott for his ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition.
Shackletons transportmidler, bestående af manchuriske ponyer, et motorkøretøj og hundeslæder, var nyvindinger, som til trods for begrænset succes blev kopieret af Scott under hans skæbnesvangre Terra Nova-ekspedition tre år senere.