Trivia

From 1914 to 1916, he served as Sir Ernest Shackleton's second-in-command on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in the "Endurance" ship. After she sank, he was left in charge of 21 men on desolate Elephant Island as Shackleton and a crew of five undertook an epic open-ocean voyage to South Georgia aboard the lifeboat James Caird in order to seek rescue. For more than four months, from 24 April to 30 August 1916, during the Antarctic winter, Wild and his crew waited on Elephant Island, surviving on a diet of seal, penguin and seaweed.

Cape Wild and Point Wild on Elephant Island in the Antarctic are named after him, as is Mount Wild in the Queen Alexandra Range and Mount Wild in Graham Land.

On 29 September 2016, a statue of Wild was unveiled in his hometown of Skelton-in-Cleveland.

On 25 November 2011, the Government of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands issued a set of commemorative postage stamps honoring Frank Wild along with other Antarctic pioneers. The set comprises eight stamps in four se-tenant pairs with denominations of 60, 70 and 90 pence, and £1.15. They are available from the Falkland Islands Philatelic Bureau.