Alistair Mackay
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Alistair Forbes Mackay was a Scottish physician, biologist, and polar explorer known for being the first, along with Australians Douglas Mawson and Edgeworth David, to reach the south magnetic pole on
Mackay, Edgeworth David, and Douglas Mawson at the South Magnetic Pole on 16 January 1909
Herald Island (Arctic)
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Herald Island is a small, isolated Russian island in the Chukchi Sea, 60 kilometres east of Waring Point, Wrangel Island. It rises in sheer cliffs, making it quite inaccessible, either by ship or by p
Alistair Mackay
…and sunk by pack ice, Mackay and three other members of the crew died of exposure while struggling across the Arctic ice to reach Wrangel Island or Herald Island. Ernest Shackleton and the Nimrod expedition at Cool Antarctica…
Herald Island; 1881 sketch by John Muir, who attributed the island's form to glacial action
Low fog, moving north west, with Herald Island causing a Von Karman Vortex street to form, on August 19, 2008.