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Personnel of the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition

Personnel of the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition

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The Shackleton–Rowett Expedition, 1921–22, was the last Antarctic expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton. Proposed as an ambitious two-year programme of Antarctic exploration it was curtailed by the death of Shackleton and the inadequacies of the expedition's ship, Quest. Under the command of Frank Wild several attempts were made to break through the Antarctic pack ice, but the expedition was never able to proceed further than longitude 20°E. On the crew's return to Cape Town to refit in preparation for the second term they were ordered home. The crew of the Quest comprised 24 members in all, but only 19 were on board for the start of the Antarctic portion (Hussey accompanied Shackleton's body when it was put on board a ship for England, and Eriksen, Mooney and Bee-Mason had left before the ship reached South Georgia). Gerald Lysaght, a yachtsman, accompanied the crew from Plymouth to Cape Verde.

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The crew of the Quest at the start of the expedition

Notes

  1. [1]
    Full name: Norman Erland Mooney
  2. [2]
    Not in Wild's crew list in his report to the Royal Geographical Society, but mentioned in Shackleton's Last Voyage
  3. [3]
    Also known as John Charles Mason
  4. [4]
    Probably George Hamblin Ross
  5. [5]
    Listed as James Argyles in Mills, p.340; as Argle and Argles in Shackleton's Last Voyage; as H. J. Argyles in the crew list of Wild's report to the Royal Geographical Society, and as Argles later in the same document.
  6. [6]
    He was a puppy when Shackleton brought him on board in early 1921

References

  • Mills, Leif (1999). Frank Wild. Whitby: Caedmon of Whitby. ISBN 0-905355-48-2.
  • Wild, Frank. "Shackleton's Last Voyage: The Story of the Quest". www.archive.org. Retrieved 3 December 2008.
  • Wild, Frank (2 February 1923). "The Voyage of the Quest". The Geographical Journal. 61 (2): 73–97. doi:10.2307/1781104.
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