James Paton collection 1910-1916

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...

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...

British Antarctic Expedition (1898-1900)

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Mackintosh, A. L. A. (Aeneas Lionel Acton), 1879-1916

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Stenhouse, Joseph Russell, 1887-1941

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Terra Nova (Steam yacht)

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Paton James 1869-1918

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British Relief Expeditions Antarctica 1902-1903-1904

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Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917). Ross Sea Party

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Paton, James, 1843-1906

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James Paton was born in Glasgow in 1869. He was an able seaman, residing with his family in Lyttelton, New Zealand, when he joined Morning, the relief ship sent to McMurdo Sound in 1902-1903 and 1903-1904 to assist the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904 (leader Robert Falcon Scott). His next Antarctic voyage was as able seaman on board Nimrod on the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909 (leader Ernest Henry Shackleton), after which he was invited to join the British ...

Aurora (Steam yacht)

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Scott, Robert Falcon, 1868-1912

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