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Why didn’t they ask Evans? by Professor Chris Turney, published in the Polar Record, in 2017, has indeed stirred a lot of opinion. I myself felt compelled to address some of the issues raised in the article, in a post entitled, In Defence of the Defendable (awful title, I know). On February 10th 2019, New Zealander, Bill Alp, published his Commentary on Chris Turney’s Why didn’t they ask Evans on this website, and even more recently, Chris Turney published his response to Bill’s article, entitled Response to Comment by Mr Bill Alp. So today, said Mr Bill Alp, is publishing his response to Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n Why didn\u2019t they ask Evans? Perhaps it was the claim that he had unearthed previously unpublished documents, that would prove that Edward Evans had deliberately sabotaged Scott and his Polar Party, as they returned from the South Pole, that rankles most, regarding Chris Turney’s article. Aside from the actual accusation, that is. The five men died in truly wretched circumstances, slowly consumed by the inhospitable Antarctic environment that enveloped them. Levelling an accusation of blame at one man, for the protracted tragedy, most certainly requires not only proof, but a complete examination and acknowledgement of all materials pertaining to the Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n The Nimrod Expedition (1907 – 1909). How the loss of Shackleton\u2019s Socks changed the course of Antarctic History On December 6th, 1908, as Ernest Shackleton, Frank Wild, Eric Marshall and Jameson Adams scaled Antarctica\u2019s Beardmore Glacier; Socks plummeted to his death, lost to one of the many crevasses that fractured the pathway to the polar plateau. He was the last to die, of the four ponies that had started the southern journey. Many of the unfortunate beasts had perished in Antarctica prior to the loss of Socks, and many more would die on subsequent expeditions, but the death of this Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n Edward Evans Stands Accused of Sabotaging Scott’s Southern Journey. Did his actions lead to the deaths of the Polar Party, in 1912? Arguably the best known scientific Antarctic venture was the British Antarctic Expedition of 1911\u20131913 led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott. Whilst the so-called race to the geographic South Pole with Roald Amundsen’s Norwegian Antarctic expedition excited international interest, the tragic death of Scott and his returning Polar Party was a striking reminder of the hazards of operating in the south. Recent work has highlighted the possible role expedition second-in-command Lieutenant Edward \u2018Teddy\u2019 Evans played in the deaths of Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n Honouring Tom Crean. Centenary Expedition with the Crean family. Honouring Tom Crean is a new book that charts the expedition by descendents of Kerry Antarctic explorer Tom Crean, to South Georgia on the centenary of his heroic traverse of the island with Ernest Shackleton and Frank Worsley. Honouring Tom Crean: a centenary expedition with the Crean family By Bill Sheppard and Aileen Crean O\u2019Brien Team Tom Crean faced serious challenges when Tom Crean\u2019s granddaughter, Aileen Crean O\u2019Brien, had a serious accident on the second day of their traverse on a hostile and remote Antarctic island In Honouring Tom Crean: a Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n Captain Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition 1910 – 1913. A Photograph Gallery. A collection of some of the lesser seen images captured on Robert Falcon Scott’s, ill fated Terra Nova Expedition. Embed from Getty Images Demetri Gerof with a dog team at Cape Evans photographed during the last, tragic voyage to Antarctica by Captain Robert Falcon Scott, circa October 1911. Scott was tutored by Herbert Ponting, the renowned photographer who was the camera artist to the expedition, which enabled Scott to take his own memorable pictures before perishing on his return from the South Pole on or after 29th March 1912. Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\nShare this:<\/h3>
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