William Henry Fawckner (1829-1914) was aboard Breadalbane, transport ship for the Arctic expedition under Inglefield in 1853. Click below...

Here’s something I put together about Arthur Edward Harbor. He was auxiliary second officer, then second officer and finally chief...

1902: POLAR TEAM’S FARTHEST SOUTH After a day of very limited visibility, R. F. Scott and Edward Wilson skied through fog to explore an...

Willie Mitchell and I have been in touch for a little while now, since before the publication of his Antarctica-inspired novel. His...

I’m happy to share a new guest post by Ana Carolina Maciel Soukef Mendes Moretto. Ana has written about the ‘winter journey’ of Edward...

Professor Reginald William James, FRS, physicist, university man and polar explorer, died in Cape Town on 7 July, 1964. James was...

ON THIS DATE IN 1879: BIRTH OF MACKINTOSH Aeneas Lionel Acton Mackintosh, British Merchant Navy officer and Antarctic explorer, was born...

A RAINBOW IN THE DARK Celebrations all over the world regarding Midwinter’s Day are pretty common and that is no different in polar...

Hudson (SPRI) Captain (Commodore 2nd Class) Huberht Taylor Hudson, navigator of Endurance, died when the vessel on which he was serving,...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOHANSEN! Fredrik Hjalmar Johansen, Norwegian polar explorer, was born in Skien, southern Norway, on 15 May, 1867....

Captain Sir Jameson Boyd Adams, KCVO, CBE, DSO, RD, died on 30 April, 1962. Jameson Boyd Adams—Bill Adams or ‘The Mate’—was born on 6...

Rev. Arnold Spencer-Smith, clergyman, photographer and Antarctic explorer, died on the Antarctic continent on 9 March, 1916, during the...

ON THIS DATE IN 1903: DEPARTURE OF MORNING FROM ANTARCTICA SY Morning under Captain William Colbeck, a relief vessel of R. F. Scott’s...

As I’ve recently added more information and dates concerning the Japanese Antarctic expedition (1910-1912) aboard ‘Kainan Maru’ to my...

Henryk Arctowski (born Henryk Artzt), Polish scientist and explorer, died 21 February, 1958, in Bethesda, northwest of Washington, D.C....

One of the many great things about the Shackleton Exhibition FB page is the range of interests and specialities of its followers and...

Henry R. Brett was the second of three cooks aboard Robert F. Scott’s Discovery Antarctic expedition. The other expedition members didn’t...

Reginald Koettlitz, scientist and polar explorer, was born in Ostend, Belgium, on 23 December 1860. Koettlitz served with two polar...

Sir Daniel Fulthorpe Gooch 3rd Baronet Gooch, of Clewer Park, died on 22 December, 1926. Gooch was an expert breeder of greyhounds and...

ON THIS DATE IN 1895: FIRST UNDISPUTED LANDING ON THE ANTARCTIC CONTINENT A party of six men from the ship Antarctic set foot on the...

Thomas Frank MacLeod was born on 3 April, 1873, in Glasgow and grew up in Stornoway, on the island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides,...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BAKEWELL! William Lincoln Bakewell, sailor and explorer, was born in Joliet, Illinois, USA, on 26 November, 1888....

The southern march of Shackleton’s British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909 (Nimrod expedition) to reach the South Pole began on 29...

Bertram Armytage, carer for the ponies of Shackleton’s Nimrod expedition, was born 29 September, 1869, in Geelong, Victoria, Australia....