A First Rate Tragedy (49 page)

Gran plans to go to,
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and Germans,
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Amundsen aims to reach,
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Amundsen reaches,
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Scott chooses party to go,
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Scott’s party reaches,
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South Trinidad,
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Southern Barrier Depot,
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Southern Cross
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Speyer, Sir Edgar,
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Spitsbergen,
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sponsorship,
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Stopes, Marie,
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Strand Magazine
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Stroud, Michael,
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Stubbington House,
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Suffolk Regiment,
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nd Volunteer Battalion,
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Sussex News
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Swan, Robert,
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Swansea,
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Tate, Henry,
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Taylor, Griffith,
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telephone link,
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Terra Nova

sent to
Discovery
expedition
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secured by Scott for second expedition,
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calls at Cardiff,
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sails for Cape Town,
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calls at Simonstown,
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sails for Melbourne,
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sails to Lyttelton,
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departs for south,
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voyage south,
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sails for New Zealand,
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returns to Cape Evans,
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lost in Second World War,
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Terror
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Thesiger, Ernest,
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Times, The
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Times Literary Supplement, The
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Titanic
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Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955–58),
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Transantarctic Mountains,
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Transglobe Expedition,
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Treasury,
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Union-Castle Line,
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Upper Glacier Depot,
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Urville, Dumont d’,
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US National Geographic Society,
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Vanbrugh, Irene,
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Venice,
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Vernon,
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Victoria, Queen,
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Victoria Land,
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Victorious
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Vigo,
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Vince, George,
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Volage
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Voyage of the ‘Discovery’, The
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Walpole, Hugh,
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Weddell, James,
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Weddell Sea,
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Wellington,
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Wells, H.G.,
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Western Mail
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West India Docks,
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Western Mountains,
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whales,
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Wharton, Sir William,
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Wild, Frank,
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wildlife
see
albatrosses; penguins; petrels; seals; whales,

Wilkes, Lieutenant John,
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Wilson, Sir Charles,
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Wilson, Edward Adrian

early life and career,
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character,
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as artist,
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chosen for Scott’s first Antarctic expedition,
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in Antarctica with
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view of Scott,
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friendship with Shackleton,
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and Shackleton’s expedition,
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agrees to accompany Scott on

second expedition,
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chooses scientific team,
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on journey to Antarctica,
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in depot-laying party,
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at Hut Point,
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expedition to Cape Crozier,
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in party heading south,
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chosen for Polar party,
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continues to Pole,
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at Pole,
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return journey,
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body discovered,
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loyalty to Scott,
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Wilson, Oriana (‘Ory’); née Souper,
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wireless,
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Wolseley Tool and Motor Company,
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Worcester
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Worst Journey in the World, The
(Cherry-Garrard),
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Wright, Charles,
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Young, Edward Hilton,
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Endnotes

1
. An ice-foot is a strip of frozen sea or blocks of ice along the shore-line.

2
. This piece of artificial holly was auctioned at Christie’s in April 1997, and sold for over £4,000.

3
. According to Michael Smith’s recent biography of Oates, pp. 263-270, in 1899 Oates also fathered an illegitimate daughter by a young girl named Etta McKendrick. The child is said to have been born in March 1900 when Etta was only twelve years old but the evidence is insufficient to substantiate that Etta even knew Oates, despite the story having circulated for some time.

First aerial ascent in Antarctica. The
Discovery’s
balloon
Eva
, in which Scott nearly shot into the heavens, is being deflated.

The
Discovery
caught in ice sixteen-feet thick at McMurdo Sound.

The
Discovery
home again in Dundee where she is open to visitors as part of an intriguing exhibition about Scott and Antarctica.