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From McMurdo Sound to Flanders Fields
Captain Scott’s Polar Party – All five died returning from the South Pole in 1913 On August 8th, 1914, the ship Endurance left England for Antarctica, carrying Sir Ernest Shackleton and…
It is as dramatic a denouement to the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration as one could ask for; the last great flowering of the values, virtues, and vices of Victorian Civilization, slamming headfirst into the oncoming mechanized storm of the 20th century. Antarctica was, then, still terra incognito, with only a few shorelines roughly mapped, but explorers from nearly a dozen countries–the United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand–plunged in anyways, suffering privation and tribulation, but returning with hard-won knowledge of Earth’s seventh continent, and the most inhospitable and inhabitable place on the planet. 458 Down south, Cherry-Garrard spent five weeks traveling sixty miles through an Antarctic winter, part of the first team to ever attempt such a feat, living in subzero temperatures long enough that his teeth were shattered by the cold.
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