SS Southern Cross (1886)
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SS Southern Cross was a steam-powered sealing vessel that operated primarily in Norway and Newfoundland.
Southern Cross in the Derwent River, Tasmania, 1898
SS Southern Cross ship on the Southern Cross Expedition ca 1899
Theodolite work in the ice pack, during Southern Cross Expedition, with the SS Southern Cross in the background
During the Southern Cross Expedition
Carsten Borchgrevink
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Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink was a Norwegian polar explorer and a pioneer of Antarctic travel. He inspired Sir Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Ernest Shackleton, Roald Amundsen, and others associated with th
SS Southern Cross (1886)
…unscathed from its long drift in the northern polar ocean during Nansen's "Farthest North" expedition, 1893–96. Pollux was sold to the Norwegian explorer Carsten Borchgrevink in 1897 and renamed Southern Cross, for the Southern Cross Expedition. Like several of the historic polar ships her post-expedition life was short…
Harvard Theatre Collection Carsten Borchgrevink TCS 1.3184 cropped
Henryk Bull's ship Antarctic in the pack ice
Sir Clements Markham, the Royal Geographical Society president who opposed Borchgrevink's Antarctic plans
Expedition member with binoculars, Antarctica, 1899