After abandoning their ship in the Weddell Sea, Captain Frank led the marches across the ice in the hope of reaching land. When their ice floe split, endangering all their lives, the survivors boarded three small lifeboats. Frank navigated them to Elephant Island during a terrific storm, then led the six-man rescue party 1300 kilometres overland to a whaling station in South Georgia. Without his precise navigation skills and incredible determination, the rescue party would never have made it. One day after reaching the whaling station he set back out to rescue the other members of the lifeboat party.
