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Frank Wild

“The top post as second-in-command went to Frank Wild, a very small but powerfully built man whose thin, mousy hair was rapidly disappearing altogether. Wild was a soft-spoken and easy-going individual on the surface, but he had a kind of … Continue reading

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The Map-Plan

Click on the map to enlarge. [Map (from a version published in a 1916 newspaper) shows the intended route in detail.]

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The Plan

“A copy of the program which [I] prepared in order to arouse the interest of the general public in the Expedition:” “THE TRANSCONTINENTAL PARTY The first crossing of the Antarctic continent from sea to sea via the Pole, apart from … Continue reading

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The Aurora

I purchased the Aurora from Douglas Mawson; she would be our second ship, for the use of the Ross Sea party. The Aurora on Mawson’s Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914. [Photo from coolantarctica.com]

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The Endurance

I renamed her the Endurance, after my family motto: Fortitudine Vincimus, or “By endurance we conquer.” [Photos from jamescairdsociety.com]

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Worsley’s Dream

“One night I had an absurd dream. I dreamed that Burlington Street was full of ice blocks and that I was navigating a ship along it. “Next morning I awoke and hurried along to Burlington Street. A sign on a … Continue reading

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Men Wanted

Apocryphal, yet apt.

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No. 4, New Burlington Street

Outside the offices of The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, No. 4, New Burlington Street, London. [via]

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Tryggve Gran

Tryggve Gran with his plane North Sea, 30 June 1914, just before his North Sea crossing. [photo: Norwegian Technical Museum]

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Surrounding the globe

Roald Amundsen, Ernest Shackleton and Robert Peary in Philadelphia, 1913 [link]

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