"Within thirty minutes they had entered an area of very open pack, and by two-thirty they were easily a mile away from Patience Camp."
After moving into the boats, the crew moves away from the camp and takes a voyage to another part of the Antarctic. During the first night the crew latches onto a floe and sleeps their for the night. The water beats against them and turns and knocks around the ice. Shackleton is faced with a dilemma; he must decide to, again, sleep on the floes where the water would freeze them to death, or to sleep in the boats where they could be flipped. They choose to sleep in the boats because they have a good chance of being hit by the water on the floes. Somehow they make it to a small island called Elephant Island. It is just a slab of rock where their is nothing living on it, but it is land.
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