Fridtjof Nansen
“Our order was, Death or the west coast of Greenland. In this way it was accomplished.”
Scottish history
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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Sir Ernest Shackleton: a driving force at the RSGS
In 1904, when Shackleton took up his post as Secretary of the RSGS, his arrival caused quite a stir…
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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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Sir John Murray: beneath the surface
From plumbing the world’s oceans on the Challenger expedition, Sir John Murray turned his attention to Scotland’s freshwater lochs
Jo Woolf 
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