[Signatures of members of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909] [mansucript]. [between 1907-1909]

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...

Mackay, Alister Forbes, 1878-1914

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Alister Forbes Mackay was born in Argyllshire, Scotland in 1877. He served as a trooper in the South African War before joining the Royal Navy as surgeon. In 1907, he was selected for the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909 (leader Ernest Henry Shackleton), as surgeon. In March 1908, Mackay was a member of the party making the first ascent of Mount Erebus (3794 metres). Shackleton decided that one of the major journeys during the coming months should be to the South Magnetic Pol...

Gerald F. Fitzgerald Collection (Newberry Library)

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Murray, James, b. 1865, inscriber.

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Adams, Jameson B., inscriber.

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Davis, John King, inscriber.

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Joyce, Ernest E. Mills (Ernest Edward Mills), d. 1940, inscriber.

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

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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...

Ledoux, Henri, former owner.

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Brocklehurst, Philip L., inscriber.

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Mitchell, W.A. Rupert, inscriber.

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England, Rupert A., inscriber.

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Marshall, Eric (Eric Stewart), 1879-1963

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George H. Marshall (1879-1963) was born in Leroy Kansas. Although he took work at Columbia University in New York, he received his AB and MA degrees from the University of Kansas at Lawrence. From 1903 until 1905 he was in the United States Indians Service, beginning as teacher at the Havasupai school. During his time there Marshall kept a diary and wrote several articles. He also documented his stay in the canyon through photographs. He was a school man for 54 years, serving as superintendant o...