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Expeditions
Polar expeditions rebuilt from their own journals and published narratives: the routes, the dates, the stores on record, and the decisions that shaped them.
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Shackleton Expedition: His Own Dates Give 497 Days Off Land
By the dates in Shackleton's South, the 28 men of the Endurance went 497 days without land. Each phase dated and counted, with the partial stores ledger as CSV.
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Illustration: From the Surviving Record. Generated schematic image — not a photograph or historical record. © From the Surviving Record, all rights reserved.
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Franklin Expedition: Two Notes on One Page, 11 Months Apart
What happened to the Franklin expedition? A sheet found in 1859, as McClintock printed it, holds two notes: “All well” in 1847, ships deserted in April 1848.
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"The Erebus & Terror in a Gale in the Pack of the Ice" by Charles Hamilton Smith — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Hamilton_Smith_-_The_Erebus_%5E_Terror_in_a_Gale_in_the_Pack_of_the_Ice_-_B1978.43.1820(55)_-_Yale_Center_for_British_Art.jpg — CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
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Roald Amundsen: First at the Pole, by Both Leaders' Records
Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911, by his own book; Scott reached it on January 17, 1912, by his journal. Dates, latitudes, routes.
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"Oscar Wisting, Olav Bjaaland, Sverre Hassel og Roald Amundsen på Sydpolen" by Helmer Hanssen / National Library of Norway — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oscar_Wisting,_Olav_Bjaaland,_Sverre_Hassel_og_Roald_Amundsen_p%C3%A5_Sydpolen_14.12.1911_(7635391194).jpg — CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)