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ON THIS DATE IN 1964: DEATH OF JAMES
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 1942: DEATH OF HUDSON
Hudson (SPRI) Captain (Commodore 2nd Class) Huberht Taylor Hudson, navigator of Endurance, died when the vessel on which he was serving,...
DEATH OF SPENCER-SMITH
Rev. Arnold Spencer-Smith, clergyman, photographer and Antarctic explorer, died on the Antarctic continent on 9 March, 1916, during the...
2 March, 1913: Shackleton left Antarctica aboard ‘Morning’
ON THIS DATE IN 1903: DEPARTURE OF MORNING FROM ANTARCTICA SY Morning under Captain William Colbeck, a relief vessel of R. F. Scott’s...
ON THIS DATE IN 1958: DEATH OF ARCTOWSKI
Henryk Arctowski (born Henryk Artzt), Polish scientist and explorer, died 21 February, 1958, in Bethesda, northwest of Washington, D.C....
KOETTLITZ
Reginald Koettlitz, scientist and polar explorer, was born in Ostend, Belgium, on 23 December 1860. Koettlitz served with two polar...
DEATH OF GOOCH
Sir Daniel Fulthorpe Gooch 3rd Baronet Gooch, of Clewer Park, died on 22 December, 1926. Gooch was an expert breeder of greyhounds and...
1895 LANDING ON THE ANTARCTIC CONTINENT!
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...
MacLeod Updated
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,...
Bakewell’s birthday!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BAKEWELL! William Lincoln Bakewell, sailor and explorer, was born in Joliet, Illinois, USA, on 26 November, 1888....
ON THIS DATE IN 1908: DEPARTURE OF THE ‘NIMROD’ POLAR TEAM
The southern march of Shackleton’s British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909 (Nimrod expedition) to reach the South Pole began on 29...
Armytage’s birthday
Bertram Armytage, carer for the ponies of Shackleton’s Nimrod expedition, was born 29 September, 1869, in Geelong, Victoria, Australia....
Macklin’s birthday!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MACKLIN! Colonel Alexander Hepburne Macklin, OBE, MC, TD, Scottish physician and RAMC officer, was born 1 September, 1889,...
New Year’s Day on Polar Expeditions
1900: BORCHGREVINK & CO. AT CAPE ADARE 1902: WITH ‘DISCOVERY’ NEARING THE ANTARCTIC CIRCLE 1903: WITH SCOTT ON THE POLAR TREK 1908:...
Shackleton, Pardo & the ‘Yelcho’
In August, 1916, at Punta Arenas, Shackleton, in his own words, ‘begged the Chilian Government to let me have the Yelcho for a last...
ON THIS DATE IN 1916: Markham
ON THIS DATE IN 1916 On 30 January, 1916, Sir Clements Robert Markham died in London. Born at Stillingfleet on 20 July, 1830, Markham...
100 YEARS AGO TODAY: The Relief of the Ross Sea Party
Too weak for hunting, physicist Richard Walters Richards became the lookout of the stranded party from the Ross Sea end of Shackleton’s...
Shackleton’s Death, 5 January, 1922
The death of Sir Ernest H. Shackleton Sir Ernest H. Shackleton On 4 January, 1922, the ‘Quest’ reached South Georgia and cast anchor off...
Sir Ernest in Dublin 1909
Sir Ernest in Dublin: Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Dublin Nimrod lecture in aid of Lady Dudley’s district nurses, 14 December, 1909. Almost...
ON THIS DATE IN 1940: GEORGE MARSTON
On 20 November, 1940, George Marston died. He was official artist on Shackleton’s expeditions aboard the Nimrod and the Endurance....
On This Day in 1861 Nansen
On 10 October, 1861, Fridtjof Nansen—zoologist, oceanographer, athlete, scholar, academic, Arctic explorer, writer, diplomat,...
On This Day in 1966: Andrew Keith Jack
On 26 September, 1966, Andrew Keith Jack, physicist of the Aurora, industrial chemist, died. Andrew Keith Jack (known as Keith Jack) was...
On This Day In 1974: Green
On 26 September, 1974, Charles Green, the cook aboard the Endurance, died in Hull, England. He was known as the ‘Antarctic Chef’. Charles...
On This Day in 1870: H. Hanssen
On 24 September, 1870, Helmer Julius Hanssen, Norwegian polar explorer, was born in Bjørnskinn, on the island of Andøya in northern...
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