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    William Speirs Bruce FRSE (1 August 1867 – 28 October 1921) was a British naturalist, polar scientist and oceanographer who organised and led the Scottish...
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  • William Bruce-Gardyne of Clan Gardyne, Laird of Middleton, Angus, Scotland William Speirs Bruce (1867–1921), Scottish explorer William George Bruce (1856–1949)...
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  • Speirs is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Annie Speirs (1889–1926), British freestyle swimmer Bill Speirs (1952–2009), British politician...
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    was done until the expedition of William Speirs Bruce on the Scotia in 1903, which overwintered at Laurie Island. Bruce surveyed the islands, reverted some...
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    Antarctic Expedition (SNAE), 1902–1904, was organised and led by William Speirs Bruce, a natural scientist and former medical student from the University...
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    farthing about the Poles". Shackleton got support, however, from William Speirs Bruce, leader of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of 1902–1904...
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    Larsen 1902–1904 – Scottish National Antarctic Expedition – led by William Speirs Bruce 1903–1905 – Second French Antarctic Expedition – led by Jean-Baptiste...
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    was accompanied by several naturalists (including Williams Speirs Bruce) and an artist, William Gordon Burn Murdoch. The publications (both scientific and...
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    old man", while William Speirs Bruce wrote of Markham's "malicious opposition to the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition". Bruce's colleague Robert...
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    the island, at 80°55'N, was named Cape Bruce, after British zoologist and oceanographer William Speirs Bruce, a member of the Jackson–Harmsworth expedition...
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    had been announced, and then abandoned, by the British explorer William Speirs Bruce, for a continental crossing via the South Pole, starting from a landing...
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    1872 as the Norwegian whaler Hekla. She was purchased in 1902 by William Speirs Bruce and refitted as a research vessel for use by the Scottish National...
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    221130 Michael Palin (de-named) 221131 Edgar Evans (de-named) 221132 William Speirs Bruce (de-named) 221133 Alexander Selkirk (de-named) 221134 Mary Kingsley...
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    expedition was accompanied by several naturalists (including William Speirs Bruce) and an artist, William Gordon Burn Murdoch. The publications (both scientific...
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    penetration since Weddell but before the modern era was made by William Speirs Bruce in 1903. The Weddell Sea is an important area of deep water mass...
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  • Robertson Bowers Louise Arner Boyd Edward Bransfield Philip Brocklehurst William Speirs Bruce Georgy Brusilov Daniel Byles Richard Evelyn Byrd Todd Carmichael...
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  • says he took his stage name, Speirs, from the surname of a lecturer at college. Since graduating from university, Speirs has played Sloan in Eragon, Andy...
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    1894, he hurried there hoping to find a vacancy. He was fortunate; William Speirs Bruce, later an Antarctic expedition leader in his own right, had intended...
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    visit to the island by a scientific party on 21 April 1904, when William Speirs Bruce and others collected specimens. The Shackleton–Rowett Expedition...
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    (1911). The Heart of the Antarctic. London: William Heinemann. Speak, Peter (2003). William Speirs Bruce: Polar Explorer and Scottish Nationalist. Edinburgh:...
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    Oceanographical Laboratory, he worked on some of the Antarctic specimens that William Speirs Bruce had brought back from the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition...
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    in company with William Speirs Bruce, Coats made a long hunting voyage to the Arctic waters around Novaya Zemlya and Spitsbergen. Bruce joined Blencathra...
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    whaling expedition to the Antarctic. He served as an assistant to William Speirs Bruce, a medical student with an interest in oceanography. Burn Murdoch...
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    (1911). The Heart of the Antarctic. London: William Heinemann. Speak, Peter (2003). William Speirs Bruce. Edinburgh: NMS Publishing. ISBN 1-901663-71-X...
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  • Charted in 1903 by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition under William Speirs Bruce, who named it after Hugo A. Acuña, pioneer Argentine meteorologist...
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    William Speirs Bruce took Scotia to 74°1'S, but in a sector of the sea which did not bring him close to Morrell's or Ross's supposed sightings. Bruce...
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  • surveyed in 1903 by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, led by William Speirs Bruce. During the expedition, it was named in honor of Robert C. Mossman...
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    plenty of evidence that dogs could succeed in the achievements of William Speirs Bruce in his Arctic, Antarctic and Scottish National Antarctic Expedition...
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    Voyage of the James Caird West Antarctica Wildlife of Antarctica William Speirs Bruce Contents 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z...
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    original on 2008-03-11. Retrieved 2008-06-30. Speak, Peter (2003). William Speirs Bruce: Polar Explorer and Scottish Nationalist. Edinburgh: NMS Publishing...
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