"Terra Nova (ship) Terra Nova was a whaler and polar expedition ship. She is best known for carrying the 1910 British Antarctic Expedition, Robert Falcon Scott's last expedition. ""Terra Nova"" (""Latin"" for New land) was built in 1884 for the Dundee whaling and sealing fleet. She was ideally suited to the polar regions and worked for 10 years in the annual seal fishery in the Labrador Sea, proving her worth for many years before she was called upon for expedition work. In 1903, she sailed in company with fellow ex-whaler to assist in freeing the National Antarctic Expedition's from McMurdo"
"Nova"" Expedition. His wife Mary died in 1905. Nares died at home aged 83 at Kingston upon Thames, on 15 January 1915 and was buried in Long Ditton churchyard. Among others, the following features are named after Nares: George Nares Vice-Admiral Sir George Strong Nares (24 April 1831 – 15 January 1915) was a British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer. He commanded the first ship to pass through the Suez Canal, the ""Challenger"" Expedition, and the British Arctic Expedition. He was highly thought of as a leader and scientific explorer. In later life he worked for the Board of"
"João da Nova João da Nova (Galician spelling ""Xoán de Novoa"" or ""Joam de Nôvoa"", Spanish spelling ""Juan de Nova""; ; born c. 1460 in Maceda, Ourense, Galicia; died July 16, 1509 in Kochi, India) was a Galician explorer of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans at the service of Portugal. He is credited as the discoverer of Ascension and Saint Helena islands. The Juan de Nova Island, in the Mozambique Channel, is named after him. The Farquhar atoll (in the Seychelles) was, for a long time, known as the João da Nova islands. It is sometimes thought that the Agaléga"
"Terra Nova Islands The Terra Nova Islands () are a pair of small phantom islands. They were thought to lie off Oates Coast, East Antarctica, about 14 nautical miles (26 km) north of Williamson Head in the Somov Sea. The Terra Nova islands were sighted from the ""Magga Dan"" on 8 March 1961, by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) under Phillip Law. They were named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) after the ""Terra Nova"", which was the lead expedition ship of the 1910-13 British Antarctic Expedition, and from which Royal Navy Lieutenant H.L.L. Pennell discovered"
"of Albuquerque. Nova and the other patrol captains presented the case against him. João da Nova died shortly after, in July 1509, just a couple of weeks before Almeida delivered the indictment and ordered Albuquerque's arrest. In spite of all this, Albuquerque is said to have personally paid for Nova's funeral in memory of his achievements in the Hormuz campaign. João da Nova João da Nova (Galician spelling ""Xoán de Novoa"" or ""Joam de Nôvoa"", Spanish spelling ""Juan de Nova""; ; born c. 1460 in Maceda, Ourense, Galicia; died July 16, 1509 in Kochi, India) was a Galician explorer of"
"trail"". Robert Falcon Scott Captain Robert Falcon Scott, (6 June 1868 – 29 March 1912) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the ""Discovery"" Expedition of 1901–1904 and the ill-fated ""Terra Nova"" Expedition of 1910–1913. On the first expedition, he set a new southern record by marching to latitude 82°S and discovered the Antarctic Plateau, on which the South Pole is located. On the second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, less than five weeks after Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition. On"
"the ship was sunk by the German ships SMS ""Seydlitz"" and SMS ""Derfflinger"". The Pennell Coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica, is named after him. Harry Pennell Commander Harry Lewin Lee Pennell (1882–1916) was a Royal Navy officer who served on the Terra Nova Expedition. He was responsible for the first sighting of Oates Coast on 22 February 1911, and named it after Captain Lawrence Oates. He only spent short periods in Antarctica, returning with the ""Terra Nova"" to wait out the winters of 1911 and 1912 in Lyttelton, New Zealand, and bringing fresh supplies back to Antarctica with each voyage."
"the Terra Nova Islands. Name approved 6/88 (ACUF 228). Terra Nova Islands The Terra Nova Islands () are a pair of small phantom islands. They were thought to lie off Oates Coast, East Antarctica, about 14 nautical miles (26 km) north of Williamson Head in the Somov Sea. The Terra Nova islands were sighted from the ""Magga Dan"" on 8 March 1961, by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) under Phillip Law. They were named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) after the ""Terra Nova"", which was the lead expedition ship of the 1910-13 British Antarctic Expedition,"
"Robert Falcon Scott Captain Robert Falcon Scott, (6 June 1868 – 29 March 1912) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the ""Discovery"" Expedition of 1901–1904 and the ill-fated ""Terra Nova"" Expedition of 1910–1913. On the first expedition, he set a new southern record by marching to latitude 82°S and discovered the Antarctic Plateau, on which the South Pole is located. On the second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, less than five weeks after Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition. On their"
"a programme of geological, magnetic and meteorology studies on an ""unprecedented"" scale. There were further plans to explore King Edward VII Land, a venture described by Campbell, who was to lead it, as """"the"" thing of the whole expedition"", and Victoria Land. ""Terra Nova"" sailed from Cardiff, Wales, on 1910. Scott, detained by expedition business, sailed later on a faster passenger liner and joined the ship in South Africa. In Melbourne, Australia, he left the ship to continue fund-raising, while ""Terra Nova"" proceeded to New Zealand. Waiting for Scott in Melbourne was a telegram from Amundsen, informing Scott that the"
"Terra Nova Bay Terra Nova Bay is a bay which is often ice free, about long, lying between Cape Washington and the Drygalski Ice Tongue along the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (known as the Discovery Expedition) under Scott, 1901–1904, and named by him after ""Terra Nova"", one of the relief ships for the expedition. The Italian permanent Zucchelli Station is located in the bay, as is the Jang Bogo Station of South Korea. A marine area of 29.4 km of the bay comprising a narrow strip of coastal waters about"
"Terra Nova arrived in Sydney. Three weeks after landing at Cape Evans in January 1911, Priestley and five others departed in the expedition ship, the Terra Nova to explore and carry out scientific work in King Edward VII land to the east under the leadership of Victor Campbell. Unable to find a suitable landing site, they decided to return West with the intention of landing at the Bay of Whales but arriving on 3 February 1911 they encountered Roald Amundsen's ship Fram and his expedition already camped there. Unwilling to establish a camp so close to the Norwegians, Campbell decided"
"Lawrence Oates Captain Lawrence Edward Grace ""Titus"" Oates (17 March 188016 March 1912) was a British army officer, and later an Antarctic explorer, who died during the ""Terra Nova"" Expedition. Oates, afflicted with gangrene and frostbite, walked from his tent into a blizzard. His death is seen as an act of self-sacrifice when, aware that his ill health was compromising his three companions' chances of survival, he chose certain death. Oates was born in Putney, London in 1880, the son of William and Caroline Oates. His family was wealthy, having had land at Gestingthorpe, Essex, for centuries; his father moved"
"Victor Campbell (Royal Navy officer) Victor Lindsay Arbuthnot Campbell DSO & Bar, OBE (20 August 1875 – 19 November 1956) was a British sailor and Royal Navy officer, who was a renowned explorer. Born in Brighton, he was the son of Hugh Campbell and Lucy Eleanor Archer. In 1910, he was First Officer on Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova expedition. After arriving in Antarctica in January 1911, his role was to lead an Eastern party of 6 men to explore and carry out scientific work in King Edward VII Land, to the east of the Barrier. On 26 January 1911,"
"He took-up residence in the burgh and set about promoting its settlement, but the division of the island into two Captaincies did not assist the island's growth. He and his wife, D. Maria de Abarca, were buried in the presbytery of the church of the Convent of São Francisco. His descendants did not live in the Capitania of Angra, instead sending ""ouvidores"", magistrates to the territory to administer the possessions. João Vaz Corte-Real João Vaz Corte-Real (; c. 1420 – 1496) was a Portuguese sailor, claimed by some accounts to have been an explorer of a land called ""Terra Nova"
"Thomas Griffith Taylor Thomas Griffith ""Grif"" Taylor (1 December 1880 – 5 November 1963) was an English geographer, anthropologist and world explorer. He was a survivor of Captain Robert Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to Antarctica (1910–1913). Taylor was born in the town of Walthamstow, England, to parents James Taylor, a metallurgical chemist, and Lily Agnes, née Griffiths. Within a year after his birth, the family had moved to Serbia where his father was manager of a copper mine. Three years later, they returned to Britain when his father became director of analytical chemistry for a major steelworks company. In 1893,"
"Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans Admiral Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans (28 October 1880 – 20 August 1957), known as ""Teddy"" Evans, was a British naval officer and Antarctic explorer. Evans was seconded from the Navy to the Discovery Expedition of the Antarctic in 1901–04, when he served on the crew of the relief ship, and afterwards began planning his own Antarctic expedition. However, he suspended this plan when offered the post of second-in-command on Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole in 1910–1913, as captain of the expedition ship ""Terra Nova"". He accompanied Scott"
"The current address is 307 Upper Richmond Road. Lawrence Oates Captain Lawrence Edward Grace ""Titus"" Oates (17 March 188016 March 1912) was a British army officer, and later an Antarctic explorer, who died during the ""Terra Nova"" Expedition. Oates, afflicted with gangrene and frostbite, walked from his tent into a blizzard. His death is seen as an act of self-sacrifice when, aware that his ill health was compromising his three companions' chances of survival, he chose certain death. Oates was born in Putney, London in 1880, the son of William and Caroline Oates. His family was wealthy, having had land"
"names of several organisms collected during the ""Terra Nova"" Expedition, including the fish ""Notopogon lilliei"", the serpulid worm ""Apomatus lilliei,"" and the sea anemone genus ""Lilliella."" In 1913, palaeobotanist E. A. Newell Arber published on fossils Lillie had collected in New Zealand in 1911, and named the fossil plant ""Linguifolium lillieanum"" in his honour."""" The poet A. Y. Campbell commemorated Lillie in his 1915 poem ""Solus Hyperboreas"", subtitled ""Ode to a pocket edition of Virgil in the possession of D G Lillie, biologist to the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910"". He is also the namesake of Lillie Glacier, a 100 x"
"on the Irrawaddy. He later served on HMS ""Fox"", preventing gun-running in the Persian Gulf. Bowers joined Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova expedition in 1908, after having read the accounts of Scott's earlier ""Discovery"" expedition, and of Ernest Shackleton's expedition in ""Nimrod"". He had no previous polar experience, but was recommended to Scott by the ex-President of the Royal Geographical Society, Sir Clements Markham, who had been the main organiser of Scott's earlier Discovery expedition. Markham had met Bowers aboard HMS ""Worcester"" and had been so impressed with him that Scott invited Bowers to join the expedition without a prior"
"10 mi. glacier in Antarctica named by members of the 1910–1913 expedition. Denis G. Lillie Denis Gascoigne Lillie (1884–1963) was a British biologist who participated in the ""Terra Nova"" Expedition (1910–1913) to the Antarctic. He collected numerous marine animals as well as plants and fossils–many of which were new to science–and published scientific papers on whales, fossils, and medicine. He was also a noted caricaturist who made cartoons of professors, colleagues, and friends: some of his caricatures are collected in the National Portrait Gallery. He received the Polar Medal along with other ""Terra Nova"" members in 1913. He worked as"
"the point of view of the British Admiralty) was to seek out the hypothetical ""unknown southern continent"", or""Terra Australis (Incognita)"". The other noted naturalist on the voyage was Daniel Solander, Spöring's former employer who had recommended Spöring for the post when he himself signed up. Solander was a former student and protégé of the noted Swedish botanist and founder of modern taxonomy, Carl Linnaeus. Spöring was also a skilled instrument maker, and in addition to his cataloging duties was assigned the maintenance and upkeep of the ship's scientific equipment during the voyage. The expedition left England in 1768, aboard HM"
"one of Queirós’ memorials, as ""Terra Australis Incognita"", or ""A New Southerne Discoverie"". A short account of Queirós’ voyage and discoveries was published in English by Samuel Purchas in 1625 in ""Haklvytvs posthumus"", or, ""Pvrchas his Pilgrimes"", vol. iv, p. 1422-1432. This account also appears to be based on a letter by Queirós to the King in 1610, the eighth on the matter. Luís Vaz de Torres Luís Vaz de Torres (Galician and Portuguese), or Luis Váez de Torres in the Spanish spelling (born c. 1565; fl. 1607), was a 16th- and 17th-century maritime explorer of a Spanish expedition noted"
"spent the rest of his life. Until his death he wore a glove to protect his hand from the effects of the severe frostbite he had suffered half a century before hand. On 15 June 1910, The Terra Nova left Cardiff. Some 8000 people volunteered to take part in this expedition. It was traveling via the uninhabited Ilha de Trinidade and Cape Town to New Zealand. On 19 November 1910, they collected supplies and members of the expedition and left Port Chalmers. It reached Ross Island on 4 January 1911 after coming in contact with severe storms and heavy pack"
"""Terra Nova"" stopped at the island of South Trinidad (now known as Trindade) off the coast of Brazil, and having recovered from the measles, Lillie went ashore to collect plants, of which 13 species turned out to be previously unknown from the island. Lillie was the biologist in charge of operations on board the ""Terra Nova"", and collected marine samples by trawling, dredging, and tow-netting. Specimens were collected in waters off the coast of Brazil, the Falkland Islands, the Three Kings Islands, as well as the Ross Sea and McMurdo Sound. With the help of others he collected deep sea"
"Vicente Yáñez Pinzón Vicente Yáñez Pinzón (; Palos de la Frontera, Spain, c. 1462 – after 1514) was a Spanish navigator, explorer, and ""conquistador"", the younger of the Pinzón brothers. Along with his older brother, Martín Alonso Pinzón (""c."" 1441 – ""c."" 1493), who captained the ""Pinta"", he sailed with Christopher Columbus on the first voyage to the New World, in 1492, as captain of the ""Niña"". Scholars believe his claims of fortune raised by him fueled the dispossession of many of the people in the Caribbean. Pinzón was born in Palos de la Frontera on the Atlantic coast of"
"Harry Pennell Commander Harry Lewin Lee Pennell (1882–1916) was a Royal Navy officer who served on the Terra Nova Expedition. He was responsible for the first sighting of Oates Coast on 22 February 1911, and named it after Captain Lawrence Oates. He only spent short periods in Antarctica, returning with the ""Terra Nova"" to wait out the winters of 1911 and 1912 in Lyttelton, New Zealand, and bringing fresh supplies back to Antarctica with each voyage. Pennell was promoted to Commander and assigned to HMS ""Queen Mary"" dying in her on 31 May 1916 in the Battle of Jutland, when"
"Névé Pennell Coast Pennell Coast is that portion of the coast of Antarctica between Cape Williams and Cape Adare. To the west of Cape Williams lies Oates Coast, and to the east and south of Cape Adare lies Borchgrevink Coast. Named by New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) in 1961 after Lieutenant Harry Pennell, Royal Navy, commander of the Terra Nova, the expedition ship of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13. Pennell engaged in oceanographic work in the Ross Sea during this period. In February 1911 he sailed along this coast in exploration and an endeavor to land the Northern Party"
"the Galician navigator João da Nova sailing at the service of the Portuguese Crown, on his voyage home from India, and that he named it ""Santa Helena"" after Helena of Constantinople. Given this is the feast day used by the Greek Orthodox Church, it has been argued that the discovery was probably made on 18 August, the feast day used by the Roman Catholic Church. However, a paper published in 2015 reviewed the discovery date and dismissed the 18 August as too late for da Nova to return to Lisbon by 11 September 1502. It suggests Jan Huyghen van Linschoten"
"cost was the purchase of the ship ""Terra Nova"", for £12,500. ""Terra Nova"" had been in Antarctica before, as part of the second ""Discovery"" relief operation. Scott wanted to sail her as a naval vessel under the White Ensign; to enable this, he obtained membership of the Royal Yacht Squadron for £100. He was thus able to impose naval discipline on the expedition, and as a registered yacht of the Squadron, ""Terra Nova"" became exempt from Board of Trade regulations which might otherwise have deemed her unfit to sail. Scott defined the objects of the expedition in his initial public"
"gulf in the Kara Sea and a group of islands in the Nordenskiöld Archipelago are named after Avgust Tsivolko. Avgust Tsivolko Avgust Karlovich Tsivolko, also spelled as Tsivolka (, ) (1810 – March 28 (O.S. March 16), 1839) was a Russian navigator and Arctic explorer. In 1834-1835, Avgust Tsivolko took part in the Pakhtusov expedition towards Novaya Zemlya. In 1837, Tsivolko commanded a schooner named ""Krotov"" during the Baer expedition towards Novaya Zemlya. He was the one to map the Matochkin Strait in the course of this expedition. In 1838 Tsivolko was put in charge of the mapping expedition and"
"contract with the daughter of Ferdinand of Aragon on October 29, 1511 to lead an expedition of discovery and exploration to Terra Nova in the years following the voyages of John Cabot. The expedition, which was to comprise two ships, had orders not to land on soil under the jurisdiction of the kingdom of Portugal. It has been speculated that this expedition also did not take place. The fact that these expeditions were contemplated furthers the notion that the shores of Newfoundland had previously been visited by the Bretons and that a part of the Newfoundland territory had been discovered"
"Pennell Coast Pennell Coast is that portion of the coast of Antarctica between Cape Williams and Cape Adare. To the west of Cape Williams lies Oates Coast, and to the east and south of Cape Adare lies Borchgrevink Coast. Named by New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) in 1961 after Lieutenant Harry Pennell, Royal Navy, commander of the Terra Nova, the expedition ship of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13. Pennell engaged in oceanographic work in the Ross Sea during this period. In February 1911 he sailed along this coast in exploration and an endeavor to land the Northern Party led"