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No doubt the explorers of 2015…
“I do so wish sometimes, that I could just pop home for an hour or two as easily in the flesh as in the spirit. No doubt the explorers of 2015, if there is anything left to explore, will not … Continue reading
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New Years 1915
“The ship had a serious encounter with the ice on the morning of December 31. We were stopped first by floes closing around us, and then about noon the Endurance got jammed between two floes heading east-north-east. The pressure heeled the ship … Continue reading
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The sinking of the Antarctic
January 10, 1903: “In his diary on January 10, 1903, scientist Carl Skottsberg wrote, “During the afternoon the pressure on the sides of the vessel — which had begun yesterday — could scarcely be marked, but after dinner, just as … Continue reading
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Nordenskjöld’s diary
“We were now sailing a sea across which none had hitherto voyaged. The weather had changed as if by magic; it seemed as though the Antarctic world repented of the inhospitable way in which it had received us the previous … Continue reading
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More Weight
“[The crushing of the Antarctic]…seems to me more glorious than if she had gone to meet the usual fate of vessels to slowly rot in some port, or to be used for something far off from her designation and purposes … Continue reading
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Xmas Letter [Not Sent]
“Had my usual evening walk & smoke, as I am better of the piles but I have been thinking of my loved ones all day I hope there is nothing wrong & that You will enjoy Yourselves tomorrow X Mass.” … Continue reading
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Football
“During afternoon indulged in a short game of football on the large floe to which the ship is moored.” — Frank Hurley
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It’s a Long Way to Tipperary
[It’s a Long Way to Tipperary, sung by Tom Yorke, 1914; as played on a 78]
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Shivering from truck to kelson
“Very slow progress, having re-entered fields of enormous floes. Many over a square mile in area, and with very little open water. All day we have been utilising the ship as a battering-ram. Backing and then full speed ahead at … Continue reading
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The Gipsy Trail
“The white moth to the closing bine, The bee to the opened clover, And the gipsy blood to the gipsy blood Ever the wide world over. Ever the wide world over, lass, Ever the trail held true, Over the world … Continue reading
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