John Bassett collection 1921

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...

Macklin Alexander Hepburne d 1967

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Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition 1921-1922

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Bassett, John

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Epithet: of Add MS 15665 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000983.0x000116 Epithet: of Sloane MS 4062 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000983.0x000117 John Bassett was a contemporary of the Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922) From the guide to the John Bassett collection, 1921, (Scott Polar Rese...