"of meteorites have been discovered in this region of Antarctica. The location chosen by Mawson for the main base camp, at Cape Denison, proved to be one of the places on Earth with the strongest wind forces, with local morphology – the abrupt gradient between the East Antarctic ice plateau and the Antarctic Ocean – creating conditions ripe for the generation of near-continuous katabatic wind conditions. Robert Falcon Scott had considered taking wireless equipment with him for his ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition in 1910-1913, but had dismissed the idea because of the great weight of the entire transmission system. Prior"
"RRS Discovery (2013) RRS ""Discovery"" is a Royal Research Ship operated by the Natural Environment Research Council. The ship is the third such vessel to be built and named for the ship used by Robert Falcon Scott in his 1901-1904 expedition to the Antarctic. ""Discovery"" was built as a replacement for the previous ""Discovery"" in the ""blue ocean"" research role. The ship was ordered in 2010 from the shipyard in Vigo, and was launched in April 2012. ""Discovery"" was delivered to the NERC in the summer of 2013 for a period of sea trials prior to her planned initial deployment."
"Nova"" was discovered by the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s flagship RV ""Falkor"". The Terra Nova was mentioned in sailing song: The Balena 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"
"HMS Scott (H131) HMS ""Scott"" is an ocean survey vessel of the Royal Navy, and the only vessel of her class. She is the third Royal Navy ship to carry the name, and the second to be named after the Antarctic explorer, Robert Falcon Scott. She was ordered to replace the survey ship HMS ""Hecla"". The ship was ordered from BAeSEMA in 1995 to replace the ageing HMS ""Hecla"". She was built at the Appledore Shipbuilders in North Devon and launched on 13 October 1996 by Mrs Carolyn Portillo, wife of Michael Portillo, the then-Secretary of State for Defence. She"
"began a refit there that lasted until February 1904. ""Victorious"" was recommissioned at Devonport on 2 February 1904 to serve as second flagship of the Channel Fleet. On 14 July 1904 the torpedo boat rammed her at Hamoaze, slightly damaging her. When under a reorganization on 1 January 1905, the Channel Fleet became the new Atlantic Fleet, and ""Victorious"" became an Atlantic Fleet unit. Captain Robert Falcon Scott, the Antarctic explorer, served as her Captain, acting as Flag Captain to Rear-Admiral George Egerton aboard her, for a period in 1906. Her Atlantic Fleet service ended when she paid off at"
"in Arthur C. Clarke's book """" was named by Clarke after RRS ""Discovery""; Clarke used to eat his lunch aboard her, as she was moored near the office where he worked in London. The Space Shuttle ""Discovery"" is named for RRS ""Discovery"". RRS Discovery RRS ""Discovery"" is a barque-rigged auxiliary steamship built for Antarctic research, and launched in 1901. She was the last traditional wooden three-masted ship to be built in the United Kingdom. Its first mission was the British National Antarctic Expedition, carrying Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton on their first, and highly successful, journey to the Antarctic,"
"stated in October 2017 that the planned out-of-service date for ""Scott"" is 2022. HMS Scott (H131) HMS ""Scott"" is an ocean survey vessel of the Royal Navy, and the only vessel of her class. She is the third Royal Navy ship to carry the name, and the second to be named after the Antarctic explorer, Robert Falcon Scott. She was ordered to replace the survey ship HMS ""Hecla"". The ship was ordered from BAeSEMA in 1995 to replace the ageing HMS ""Hecla"". She was built at the Appledore Shipbuilders in North Devon and launched on 13 October 1996 by Mrs"
"used by Robert Falcon Scott, the ""RRS Discovery"". This ship is now on display at Discovery Point in the city, and the Victorian steel-framed works in which Discovery's engine was built is now home to the city's largest book shop. The need of the local jute industry for whale oil also supported a large whaling industry. Dundee Island in the Antarctic takes its name from the Dundee whaling expedition, which discovered it in 1892. Whaling ceased in 1912 and shipbuilding ceased in 1981. The last connection with whaling in Dundee reportedly ended in 1922 when a trading ketch owned by"
"The Worst Journey in the World The Worst Journey in the World is a memoir of the 1910–1913 British Antarctic Expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott. It was written and published in 1922 by a member of the expedition, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, and has earned wide praise for its frank treatment of the difficulties of the expedition, the causes of its disastrous outcome, and the meaning (if any) of human suffering under extreme conditions. In 1910, Cherry-Garrard and his fellow explorers travelled by sailing vessel, the ""Terra Nova"", from Cardiff to McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. 'Cherry' was teased at first by some"
"Two expeditions set off in 1910 to attain this goal; a party led by Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen from the ship ""Fram"" and Robert Falcon Scott's British group from the ""Terra Nova"". Amundsen succeeded in reaching the Pole on 14 December 1911 using a route from the Bay of Whales to the polar plateau via the Axel Heiberg Glacier. Scott and his four companions reached the South Pole via the Beardmore route on 17 January 1912, 33 days after Amundsen. All five died on the return journey from the Pole, through a combination of starvation and cold. The Amundsen–Scott"
"return from the Antarctic, was to be battered to pieces in the North Sea, after running aground on the Barber Sands off the Norfolk coast on 31 January 1919. Only two of her 12-person crew survived. A number of geographic features of Antarctica were named after the ship, including Nimrod Glacier. Nimrod (ship) Nimrod was the ship Ernest Shackleton used in his 1908 Antarctic Nimrod Expedition for the South Pole. It was a 41-year-old schooner of 334 gross register tons that had been used to hunt seals and whales. Shackleton, who paid £5,000 for the ship, had it re-rigged as"
"to Franklin, would have provided passage. The M'Clintock Channel is named in his honor, as is Mount McClintock in Antarctica. McClintock Arctic Expedition The McClintock Arctic Expedition of 1857 was a British effort to locate the last remains of the lost Franklin Arctic Expedition. Led by captain Francis Leopold McClintock aboard the steam yacht ""Fox"", the expedition spent two years in the region and ultimately returned with the only written message from the doomed expedition. McClintock and crew were awarded the Arctic medal in recognition of their achievements. When John Rae reported that found artifacts and Inuit testimony placed the"
"RRS Discovery RRS ""Discovery"" is a barque-rigged auxiliary steamship built for Antarctic research, and launched in 1901. She was the last traditional wooden three-masted ship to be built in the United Kingdom. Its first mission was the British National Antarctic Expedition, carrying Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton on their first, and highly successful, journey to the Antarctic, known as the Discovery Expedition. After service as a merchant ship before and during the First World War, ""Discovery"" was taken into the service of the British government in 1923 to carry out scientific research in the Southern Ocean, becoming the first"
"RRS Discovery II RRS ""Discovery II"" was a British Royal Research Ship which, during her operational lifetime of about 30 years, carried out considerable hydrographical and marine biological survey work in Antarctic waters and the Southern Ocean in the course of the Discovery Investigations research program. Built in Port Glasgow, launched in 1928 and completed in 1929, she was the first purpose-built oceanographic research vessel and was named after Robert Falcon Scott's 1901 ship, RRS ""Discovery"". The ship’s maiden voyage took place from December 1929 to May 1931 and consisted of a hydrographic survey of the South Sandwich Islands. From"
"a number of Royal Navy ships, including 12 months on HMS ""Swiftsure"", for the next two years. He then returned to the Merchant Navy and found a position with Allan Line Royal Mail Steamers, which sailed regularly from England to Canada and South America. He would intermittently be called up for service in the RNR over the next several years. This included a month in 1911 spent aboard HMS ""New Zealand"". In 1914, the explorer Ernest Shackleton began preparing an expedition which had the goal of completing the first crossing of the Antarctic continent. The failure of Robert Falcon Scott"
"between the Dundee Heritage Trust's Antarctica 100 Discovery Restoration Fund and the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust. SY Morning SY Morning was a steam yacht, known for her role as a relief vessel to Scott's British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–1904). She made two voyages to the Antarctic to resupply the expedition. ""Morgenen"" was a Norwegian whaling ship, built in 1871 by Svend Foyn of Tønsberg, Norway. In 1901 she was purchased as a relief ship for the British National Antarctic Expedition for £3,880. In September 1901, she sailed from Norway to England where she was refitted and renamed ""Morning"", the"
"Reserves. Although officially on leave from Union-Castle, this was in fact the end of Shackleton's Merchant Navy service. The National Antarctic Expedition, known as the Discovery Expedition after the ship ""Discovery"", was the brainchild of Sir Clements Markham, president of the Royal Geographical Society, and had been many years in preparation. It was led by Robert Falcon Scott, a Royal Navy torpedo lieutenant lately promoted Commander, and had objectives that included scientific and geographical discovery. Although ""Discovery"" was not a Royal Navy unit, Scott required the crew, officers and scientific staff to submit to the conditions of the Naval Discipline"
"Quest (ship) Quest, a low-powered, schooner-rigged steamship that sailed from 1917 until sinking in 1962, is best known as the polar exploration vessel of the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition of 1921-1922. It was aboard this vessel that Sir Ernest Shackleton died on 5 January 1922 while the vessel was in harbour in South Georgia. Prior to and after the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition, ""Quest"" operated in commercial service as a seal-hunting vessel or sealer. ""Quest"" was also the primary expedition vessel of the British Arctic Air Route Expedition to the east coast of the island of Greenland in 1930-1931. ""Quest"" was in length, had"
"from the explorers were found but all later died. Franklin had died in 1847 and the remainder had tried to travel south. Robert McClure completed the route in 1850. James Clark Ross surveyed Victoria Land in Antarctica in 1842. The Ross Sea and Ross Island are named after him as is a ship of the British Antarctic Survey. Robert Falcon Scott surveyed the Great Ice Barrier in the Antarctic in 1901-4 in RRS ""Discovery"". He died in 1910 on the journey back from the South Pole. Ernest Shackleton led an expedition to try to cross Antarctica in 1914. His ship"
"that year she visited Cagliari. She underwent a refit at Malta in 1905–1906. Her Mediterranean Fleet service ended when she paid off at Devonport on 11 February 1907. On 12 February 1907, ""Bulwark"" recommissioned to serve as Flagship, Rear-Admiral, Nore Division, Home Fleet, at the Nore. She grounded near Lemon Light in the North Sea on 26 October, and underwent a refit at Chatham Dockyard in 1907–1908. In 1908, Captain Robert Falcon Scott of Antarctic fame became ""Bulwark""s commander, becoming the youngest battleship commander at that time. ""Bulwark"" joined the Channel Fleet on 3 October 1908. Under the fleet reorganisation"
"Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage is a bestselling book written by Alfred Lansing. It was first published in 1959. The book recounts the failure of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton in its attempt to cross the Antarctic continent in 1914 and the subsequent struggle for survival endured by the twenty-eight man crew for almost two years. The book's title refers to the ship Shackleton used for the expedition, the ""Endurance"". The ship was beset and eventually crushed by ice floes in the Weddell Sea leaving the men stranded on the pack ice. All"
"off in 1889 and sold for scrap in 1893. Among the men who had served aboard her was the Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott, who spent nine months aboard ""Rover"" starting in late 1886. HMS Rover (1874) HMS ""Rover"" was an 18-gun iron screw corvette built for the Royal Navy in the 1870s, the sole ship of her class. The ship was initially assigned to the North America and West Indies Station until she returned home in 1879. She was transferred to the Training Squadron when it formed in 1885. ""Rover"" was not really suitable for such a role and"
"Expedition, and by Robert Falcon Scott on the Terra Nova Expedition. At 1,795 miles (2,888 km) the Scott Expedition is the longest human-powered polar journey in history. Saunders and L'Herpiniere set out from Ross Island on 26 October 2013, reached the South Pole on 26 December 2013 and finished their expedition at Ross Island again on 7 February 2014. Although the journey was completed, it must be noted that the Scott Expedition cannot be claimed to have been fully unsupported, since some supplies had to be delivered by air on their return journey. Robert Swan OBE and Falcon Scott (Captain"
"City of New York (1885 ship) The City of New York was a steam barquentine best known for being Richard E. Byrd's flagship on his 1928–30 exploration of Antarctica, mistakenly for the rescue of Shackleton in 1915, and most infamously for possibly being the ship that failed to come to the aid of the ""Titanic"" in 1912. Her name was changed several times; originally named ""Samson"" (1885–1914), she was renamed the ""Jacobsen"" (1915–1919), and then the ""Belsund"" (1919–1926), and back to ""Samsun"" (1926–1928), before being finally dubbed the ""City of New York"" in 1928. As built, the ship was long,"
"1860-61 before being sold to the Danish Royal Greenland Company. By the late 1880s ""Fox"" was owned by Akties. Kryolith Mine-og Handels Selskabet of Copenhagen, and was refitted with a 17 nhp compound steam engine made by Burmeister & Wain. After a long and useful career ""Fox"" was wrecked on the coast of Greenland in 1912. Fox (ship) The steam yacht Fox was the vessel that Francis Leopold McClintock commanded in 1857-1859 on an expedition to the Arctic in northern Canada to search for the fate of the missing expedition of Sir John Franklin. ""Fox"" was a built as a"
"The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition The Endurance is a 2000 documentary film directed by George Butler about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition in 1914. ""The Endurance"" was the name of the ship of Shackleton's expedition. After failing to be the first to reach the South pole by only 97 miles in 1909, Shackleton set out to be the first to cross the Antarctic continent via the pole. The expedition met disastrous results when its ship became trapped and ultimately crushed in the ice pack. Shackleton and his 28-man crew endured the long polar winter before ultimately finding rescue following"
"In 1921, he returned to the Antarctic with the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition, but died of a heart attack while his ship was moored in South Georgia. At his wife's request he was buried there. Away from his expeditions, Shackleton's life was generally restless and unfulfilled. In his search for rapid pathways to wealth and security, he launched business ventures which failed to prosper, and he died heavily in debt. Upon his death, he was lauded in the press, but was thereafter largely forgotten, while the heroic reputation of his rival Scott was sustained for many decades. Later in the 20th century,"
"SY Morning SY Morning was a steam yacht, known for her role as a relief vessel to Scott's British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–1904). She made two voyages to the Antarctic to resupply the expedition. ""Morgenen"" was a Norwegian whaling ship, built in 1871 by Svend Foyn of Tønsberg, Norway. In 1901 she was purchased as a relief ship for the British National Antarctic Expedition for £3,880. In September 1901, she sailed from Norway to England where she was refitted and renamed ""Morning"", the same name translated into English. The officers that set sail from London in 1902 were: Captain William"
"RRS John Biscoe (1956) The RRS ""John Biscoe"" was a supply and research vessel used by the British Antarctic Survey between 1956 and 1991. An earlier vessel, operated from 1947-56. Both were named after the English explorer John Biscoe, who discovered parts of Antarctica in the early 1830s. ""John Biscoe II"" was replaced by in 1991. After decommissioning, she was sold and eventually scrapped in 2004 under the name ""Fayza Express"". ""Biscoe""'s first visit to Halley Research Station, in 1959/60 was under the veteran captain, Bill Johnston. From 1975, joint Masters of ""John Biscoe"" were Malcolm Phelps and Chris Elliott."
"until June 2009 she was refitted in Portsmouth. On 26 October 2009 and again on 25 November 2010 the ship deployed to the South Atlantic and Antarctic to cover for the non-availability of the Royal Navy icebreaker HMS ""Endurance"". In February 2010, ""Scott"" hosted artist Rowan Huntley for a month in Antarctica, in a new artist-in-residence programme for the Royal Navy inaugurated by the Friends of the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI). In June 2010, the ship visited Cardiff to mark the centenary of Robert Falcon Scott's departure from Cardiff on 15 June 1910 for the South Pole, at the"
"and unable to help pull the sledge. Scott and Wilson, themselves suffering, struggled to get the party home. It was a close call but 93 days after setting off, having covered 960 miles, they reached the ""Discovery"" and safety in February 1903. The following month, Shackleton, having suffered particularly badly from scurvy and exhaustion, was sent home early by Scott on the relief ship, Morning. On his return, Shackleton asked Wilson to join his Nimrod expedition to Antarctica in 1907, but partly out of loyalty to Scott, he declined. On 15 June 1910, Wilson set sail from Cardiff on the"
"VIII's warship), the ""Golden Hind"" (Sir Francis Drake's ship for the circumnavigation of the globe between 1577 and 1580), HMS ""Victory"" (Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805), and HMS ""Beagle"" (ship used in Charles Darwin's five-year voyage). Other important British ships include HMS ""Endeavour"" (James Cook's ship in his first voyage of discovery), HMS ""Challenger"" (first global marine research expedition: the ""Challenger"" expedition), and ""Discovery"" (carried Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton in the Discovery Expedition, their first successful journey to the Antarctic). The Royal Navy troopship is known for the first appearance of the ""women"
"Controversies surrounding Robert Falcon Scott The British Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott became the subject of controversy when, more than 60 years after his death on the return march from the South Pole in 1912, his achievements and character came under sustained attack. Until that time the image of Scott, in Britain and in much of the world, had been that of heroic endeavour, the cornerstone of his reputation being his ""Message to the Public"" written just before his death. Occasional muted criticisms of his methods and character had generally failed to penetrate the public's consciousness. However, Roland Huntford's 1979"