Fridtjof Nansen
“Our order was, Death or the west coast of Greenland. In this way it was accomplished.”
“Our order was, Death or the west coast of Greenland. In this way it was accomplished.”
“They lit their pipes by the midnight sun with the aid of a burning glass.”
read more Voices from the Antarctic: Scott and Shackleton at the RSGS
On a freezing winter night, an enthusiastic audience gathered to hear one of the greatest polar heroes of them all
read more ‘A born leader of men’: Sir Ernest Shackleton in Edinburgh
A gentle Scotswoman whose love of botany drew her to the lands of the far north
Quietly determined and fiercely patriotic, in 1902 William Speirs Bruce carried the Saltire to the Antarctic on his ship, the Scotia