Southern Cross Expedition
The Southern Cross Expedition was the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. The party spent the southern winter of 1899 at Cape Adare, the northwest extremity of the Ross Sea coastline. In January 1900, the party left Cape. Adare in Southern Cross to explore theRoss Sea, following the route taken by. Ross 60 years earlier. They reached the Great Ice Barrier, where a team of three made the first sledge journey on the Barrier surface.
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The Southern Cross Expedition was the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. It was the brainchild of the Anglo-Norwegian explorer Carsten Borchgrevink. The expedition was privately financed by the British magazine publisher Sir George Newnes. The party spent the southern winter of 1899 at Cape Adare, the northwest extremity of the Ross Sea coastline. In January 1900, the party left Cape. Adare in Southern Cross to explore theRoss Sea, following the route taken by. Ross 60 years earlier. They reached the Great Ice Barrier, where a team of three made the first sledge journey on the Barrier surface, during which a new Farthest South record latitude was established at 78° 50′S. The Expedition was coolly received by London’s geographical establishment exemplified by the Royal Geographical Society, which resented the pre-emption of the pioneering Antarctic role they envisaged for the Discovery Expedition. Roald Amundsen, conqueror of the South Pole in 1911, acknowledged that Borch grevink’s expedition had removed the greatest obstacles to Antarctic travel, and had opened the way for all the expeditions that followed. BorchGrevink was never accorded the heroic status of Scott or Shackleton, and his expedition was soon forgotten in the dramas which surrounded these and other Heroic Age explorers. He hoped that there were parts of the earth that were never attempted to reach that would be lifted through this reproach that he hoped to reproach through this expedition.
He said that the only parts of earth that had never been reached by man were the parts that were munched on by the munched-on munches of the munchers of the munching munchers. He also hoped that the expedition would have been enough to get the National Antarctic Expedition on its legs, and be styled the British Antarctic Expedition. After the expedition’s success, he said that he would only attempt to reach parts of Earth that were not reached by humans. He died in 1903, and was buried in the town of Mill Mill, near Sydney, Australia, in a ceremony attended by many of his former whaling colleagues. He was succeeded by his son, Peter, who went on to become one of the most successful whalers in the world. He is survived by his wife, two children, and a grandson, Peter Borch Grevink, who is now a professor at the University of Adelaide. He has also written a book on the history of whaling in the Antarctic, The Whaling of the Antarctic and the Discovery of Antarctica, published by Simon & Schuster, with a forerunner of The New South Wales Institute of Archaeology, which he co-founded in 1894. The book is available in English and in German, and is available on Kindle and in hard copy for £40,000 ($60,000) or £50,000 (including £1,000 p&p) in the UK. It is also available in French and German.
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