Charles Mackellar collection 1908-1922

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Charles Mackellar collection 1908-1922

Correspondence (Circa 20 leaves)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6285156

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...

Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition 1921-1922

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Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition Weddell Sea 1914-1916

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Mackellar Charles D

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British Antarctic Expedition (1907-1909)

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The British Antarctic Expedition of 1907-1909, also known as the The Nimrod Expedition, was the first of three successful expeditions to the Antarctic led by Ernest Shackleton. Its main target, among a range of geographical and scientific objectives, was to be first to the South Pole. This was not attained, but the expedition's southern march reached a Farthest South latitude of 88° 23' S, just 97.5 nautical miles (180.6 km; 112.2 mi) from the pole. This was by far the longest southern polar jou...

Charles D Mackellar

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Charles D Mackellar was a contemporary of the Antarctic explorer Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922). His correspondence to the Shackleton family and those connected with them includes an account of the expeditions from the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909 to the Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition, 1921-1922. From the guide to the Charles Mackellar collection, 1908-1922, (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge) ...