The Terra Nova Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition to Antarctica which took place between 1910 and 1913. Led by...
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Terra Nova was a whaler and polar expedition ship. The ship is best known for carrying the 1910 British Antarctic Expedition, Robert Falcon Scott's last...
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up Terra Nova in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Terra Nova (literally "New Earth" or "New Land") may refer to: Terra Nova Bay, Victoria Land Terra Nova...
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Expedition British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–09, also known as the Nimrod Expedition British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, also known as the Terra Nova...
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Henry Robertson Bowers (category Terra Nova expedition)
1912) was one of Robert Falcon Scott's polar party on the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition of 1910–1913, all of whom died during their return from the South...
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Terra Nova is an American science fiction drama television series. It aired on the Fox Network for one season from September 26 to December 19, 2011. The...
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Robert Falcon Scott (category Terra Nova expedition)
two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery expedition of 1901–04 and the Terra Nova expedition of 1910–13. On the first expedition, he set...
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Edward Wilson (explorer) (category Terra Nova expedition)
sail from Cardiff on the Terra Nova, as chief of the scientific staff of Scott's final journey, the Terra Nova Expedition. After making stops in Madeira...
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competitive British party led by Robert Falcon Scott as part of the Terra Nova Expedition. Amundsen and his team returned safely to their base, and about...
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Lawrence Oates (category Terra Nova expedition)
later an Antarctic explorer, who died from hypothermia during the Terra Nova Expedition when he walked from his tent into a blizzard. His death, which occurred...
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Expedition (BrNAE) 1901–04, and named for the Terra Nova, relief ship for this expedition and the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13. Mount Terra Nova...
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Tom Crean (explorer) (category Terra Nova expedition)
major expeditions to Antarctica during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, including Robert Falcon Scott's 1911–1913 Terra Nova Expedition. This...
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Herbert Ponting (category Terra Nova expedition)
photographer. He is best known as the expedition photographer and cinematographer for Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to the Ross Sea and South Pole...
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Scott's Hut (redirect from Terra Nova Hut)
was erected in 1911 by the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910–1913 (also known as the Terra Nova Expedition) led by Robert Falcon Scott. In selecting a...
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The Worst Journey in the World (category Terra Nova expedition)
Scott's Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole in 1910–1913. It has earned wide praise for its frank treatment of the difficulties of the expedition, the...
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Cape Crozier (section Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13)
operation and some opprobrium for Scott. There would be no chance of the Terra Nova being icebound in the open seas off Cape Crozier, but the unsheltered...
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Robert Forde (category Terra Nova expedition)
1875 – 13 March 1959) was an Antarctic explorer and member of the Terra Nova Expedition under Captain Robert Falcon Scott from 1910–1912. Robert Forde was...
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purchase and care for 33 Sakhalin Huskies during his ill-fated Terra Nova expedition to Antarctica. Scott notes that the Sakhalin huskies were shorter...
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List of Antarctic flags (section Terra Nova Expedition)
easier to recognize the participants of the expedition, flags were placed on the sleighs. British expeditions used distinctly complex, embroidered designs...
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Roald Amundsen (leading his South Pole expedition) and Robert Falcon Scott (leading the Terra Nova Expedition) reached the South Pole within five weeks...
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Edgar Evans (category Terra Nova expedition)
Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole in 1911–1912. This group of five men, personally selected for the final expedition push, attained...
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National Antarctic Expedition (known as the Discovery Expedition) under Robert Falcon Scott, 1901–1904, and named by him after Terra Nova, one of the relief...
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despite limited success, were later copied by Scott for his ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition. On his return, Shackleton overcame the Royal Geographical Society's...
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documentary that contains brief cinematograph sequences taken during the Terra Nova Expedition of 1910–1913. The principal filmmaker was photographer Herbert Ponting...
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Apsley Cherry-Garrard (category Terra Nova expedition)
Antarctica. He was a member of the Terra Nova expedition and is acclaimed for his 1922 account of this expedition, The Worst Journey in the World. Born...
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Thomas Griffith Taylor (category Terra Nova expedition)
and world explorer. He was a survivor of Captain Robert Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to Antarctica (1910–1913). Taylor was a senior academic geographer...
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of Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition, which had left Cardiff in July 1910, and on the concurrent Norwegian expedition led by Roald Amundsen. The...
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William Lashly (category Terra Nova expedition)
seaman who served as lead stoker on both the Discovery expedition and the Terra Nova expedition to Antarctica, for which he was awarded the Polar Medal...
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Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911–14) under Douglas Mawson, who named it for Charles S. Wright of Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910–13). Wright Valley...
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Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition – On 14 December 1911, reached the South Pole (90° S) 1910–1913 – Terra Nova Expedition – On 17 January 1912, Robert...
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