Alfred Hutchinson collection 1922

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Alfred Hutchinson collection 1922

Correspondence (6 leaves)

eng,

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SNAC Resource ID: 6285036

Scott Polar Research Institute

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Shackleton, Ernest Henry, 1874-1922

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Ernest Shackleton, leader of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition and part of two other Antarctic expeditions, acquired Polaris after her owner's financial trouble. Renamed Endurance after the Shackleton family motto Fortitudine vincimus (By Endurance we Conquer), she sailed intending to accomplish the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent. She departed for her final voyage on December 15, 1914 but progress was slow, averaging about 30 miles per day through pack ice. A month later, w...

Hutchinson, Alfred, 1924-1972

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Alfred Hutchinson was a contemporary of the geographer and meteorologist Hugh Robert Mill (1861-1950) From the guide to the Alfred Hutchinson collection, 1922, (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge) ...

Mill, Hugh Robert, 1861-1950

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Hugh Robert Mill was born at Thurso, Scotland, on 28 May 1861. He read chemistry and physics at Edinburgh University and specialised in marine chemistry, working on the scientific reports of the Challenger expedition under Sir John Murray. In 1887, he became lecturer in geography and physiography at Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh, and four years later, published The realm of nature, an important textbook of scientific geography. In 1892, he was appointed librarian of the Royal Geogr...

Hutchinson Alfred fl 1922

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