Photo Gallery: Bowers Museum exhibit contemplates an expedition’s heroic Antarctic legacy

Alexandra Shackleton poses next to her favorite photo, “The Long Night” (Frank Hurley, 1915), a titanium print, at Bowers Museum for the exhibit Endurance: The Antarctic Legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton and Frank Hurley. She is the granddaughter of explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton.

A slide show of images shows the stranded ship at the exhibit Endurance: The Antarctic Legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton and Frank Hurley, at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana.

Slide shows of images and a chronological history of the expedition and a wide array of photographs make up the exhibit Endurance: The Antarctic Legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton and Frank Hurley, at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana.

The boat, named the Alexandra Shackleton, used to re-create the expedition sits behind Alexandra Shackleton, in silhouette, at Bowers Museum on Sept. 28.

Sir Ernest Shackleton’s granddaughter Alexandra Shackleton stands near a photo of her grandfather, second row, second from right, at the exhibit Endurance: The Antarctic Legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton and Frank Hurley, at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, on Sept. 28.

Sir Ernest Shackleton’s granddaughter Alexandra Shackleton stands at the entrance to the exhibit Endurance: The Antarctic Legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton and Frank Hurley, at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, on Sept. 28, 2017.

A painting of the landing at South Georgia Island at the exhibit Endurance: The Antarctic Legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton and Frank Hurley, at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana.

Two of the titanium prints displayed at the exhibit Endurance: The Antarctic Legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton and Frank Hurley, at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana.

An image shows the stranded ship at the exhibit Endurance: The Antarctic Legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton and Frank Hurley, at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana.

Sir Ernest Shackleton’s granddaughter Alexandra Shackleton attends a preview day for the exhibit Endurance: The Antarctic Legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton and Frank Hurley at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana on Sept. 28, 2017.

As part of media day at Bowers Museum for the exhibit Endurance: The Antarctic Legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton and Frank Hurley, Ace Christopherson-Bilbruck plays with the snow alongside a pack of sled dogs at the front of the museum in Santa Ana on Sept. 28, 2017.

As part of media day at Bowers Museum for the exhibit Endurance: The Antarctic Legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton and Frank Hurley, Adventure Quest Institute’s Robert Stradley cools down Split, center, and Zip, right, members of his pack of sled dogs at the front of the museum in Santa Ana on Sept. 28, 2017.

Alasdair Macleod, second from left, Alexandra Shackleton, second from right, and museum president Peter Keller, right, open the doors to the Endurance exhibit at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana on Sept. 28, 2017.