storm-whitened

Updated: June 2, 2025

Generally we were upheld by the knowledge that we were making progress towards the land where we would be, but there were days and nights when we lay hove to, drifting across the storm-whitened seas and watching with eyes interested rather than apprehensive the uprearing masses of water, flung to and fro by Nature in the pride of her strength.

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton - South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition