Once ashore, however, Shackleton realised that help was still far away, across the island's uncharted interior of lofty peaks and glacial moraines.

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Sandy's devastation was uncharted territory for the aquarium: Despite its oceanfront location, it had never flooded since it relocated to Coney Island from Lower Manhattan in 1957, Mr. Dohlin said.

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