William Speirs Bruce
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William Speirs Bruce was a British naturalist, polar scientist and oceanographer who organised and led the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition to the South Orkney Islands and the Weddell Sea. Among
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The Speirs Bruce Way in Granton, Edinburgh, Scotland, named for William Speirs Bruce
Fridtjof Nansen
Prince Albert of Monaco, aboard Princesse Alice, with a dissected cetacean
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
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…expedition to South Georgia, but the RGS would not support his plans. In early 1896 he considered collaboration with the Norwegians Henryk Bull and Carsten Borchgrevink in an attempt to reach the South Magnetic Pole. This, too, failed to materialise. From September 1895 to June 1896 Bruce worked at the Ben Nevis summit…
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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