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