Liberating is a Gerund because it ends in -ing.
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The voyage of the James Caird was a journey of 1,300 kilometers (800 mi) from Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands through the Southern Ocean to South Georgia, undertaken by Sir Ernest Shackleton and five companions to obtain rescue for the main body of the stranded Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914
Two sentences joined with a coordinating conjunction and a comma form a compound sentence. If it were a complex, it would have a dash. If it were a comma splice, it would have a dash and a dash. If it were a run-on, it wouldn't have either, just a lot of and in it.
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