British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition
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- Shackleton
- In Ernest Shackleton
In August 1914 the British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914–16) left England under Shackleton’s leadership. He planned to cross Antarctica from a base on the Weddell Sea to McMurdo Sound, via the South Pole, but the expedition ship Endurance was trapped in ice off the Caird coast and drifted for…
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- Gerlache de Gomery
- In Adrien-Victor-Joseph, baron de Gerlache de Gomery
…Ernest Shackleton in planning the British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914 to 1917.
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- In Adrien-Victor-Joseph, baron de Gerlache de Gomery