December 16, 2019
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, Scotland. By the age of fourteen McLeod was a man of the sea. He fought in the Boer War where …
November 26, 2019
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BAKEWELL!
William Lincoln Bakewell, sailor and explorer, was born in Joliet, Illinois, USA, on 26 November, 1888. Bakewell was signed on to Shackleton’s ‘Endurance’ at Buenos Aires as Able …
October 28, 2019
The southern march of Shackleton’s British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909 (Nimrod expedition) to reach the South Pole began on 29 October, 1908.
Shackleton led the polar team which comprised Jameson Adams, Eric…
September 29, 2019
Bertram Armytage, carer for the ponies of Shackleton’s Nimrod expedition, was born 29 September, 1869, in Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
Armytage attended Geelong Grammar School as well as Melbourne Grammar School…
September 23, 2019
Henry ‘Chippy’ McNish died in Wellington, New Zealand, on 24 September, 1930.
To mark the anniversary of his death, I have put together a list of pages, articles and papers related to McNish. Though Shackleton denied…
September 2, 2019
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MACKLIN!
Colonel Alexander Hepburne Macklin, OBE, MC, TD, Scottish physician and RAMC officer, was born 1 September, 1889, in India. Macklin was surgeon on Shackleton’s Imperial Transcontinental…
August 28, 2019
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, FORDE!
On 29 August, 1875, Robert Forde, naval officer and Antarctic explorer, was born in Moviddy, near Bandon, Co. Cork. Forde was part of Captain Robert F. Scott’s Terra Nova expedition.
Robert…
August 18, 2019
Stephen Martin, historian and explorer of Antarctica, has written:
‘The silences are a leitmotif, a characteristic of the environment that is a reminder of people’s unease and unfamiliarity in Antarctica.…
August 5, 2019
June 10, 2019
JUNE, 1916: THE UNCERTAIN BEGINNING OF THE INSTITUTIO DE PESCA NO. 1 RESUCE ATTEMPT
Following the failure of Southern Sky to reach Elephant Island, Shackleton turned to the governments of South America for assistance…