Cape Evans (77°38′S 166°24′E / 77.633°S 166.400°E / -77.633; 166.400 (Cape Evans)) is a rocky cape on the west side of Ross Island, Antarctica, forming...
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Terra Nova Expedition (section Cape Evans base)
Wilson, Oates, Bowers and Edgar Evans) would go forward while Lieutenant Evans, Lashly and Crean would return to Cape Evans. The decision to take five men...
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Ross Island (section Capes and peninsulas)
heating. Capes and peninsulas include, clockwise from the south, the Hut Point Peninsula, Cape Evans, Cape Royds, Cape Bird, Cape Tennyson, Cape Crozier...
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Edward L. Atkinson (section In charge at Cape Evans)
Nova Expedition, 1910–13. He was in command of the expedition's base at Cape Evans for much of 1912, and led the party which found the tent containing the...
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arrival and less time for preparatory work before the Antarctic winter. At Cape Evans, Antarctica, one of the motor sledges was lost during its unloading from...
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Scott's Hut is a building located on the north shore of Cape Evans on Ross Island in Antarctica. It was erected in 1911 by the British Antarctic Expedition...
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title Scott's Hut popularly belongs to the building erected in 1911 at Cape Evans. Discovery Hut was designed by Professor Gregory, (appointed as leader...
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blindness. In 1921, 'Teddy' Evans wrote in his book South with Scott that Scott had left the following written orders at Cape Evans. About the first week of...
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the unstable sea ice to Cape Evans, were caught in a blizzard and were not seen again. The survivors eventually reached Cape Evans, but then had to wait...
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(Erebus Bay)) is a bay about 13 nautical miles (24 km; 15 mi) wide between Cape Evans and Hut Point Peninsula, on the west side of Ross Island, Antarctica....
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Alaska Evans, Colorado Evans, Georgia Evans County, Georgia Evans, New York Evans Mills, New York Evans City, Pennsylvania Evans, West Virginia Évans, in...
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from Cape Evans, out of McMurdo Sound, into the Ross Sea and eventually into the Southern Ocean. Ten men were left stranded ashore at Cape Evans. Aurora...
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expedition in July 1911, from the expedition's base at Cape Evans, to the penguins' rookery at Cape Crozier. Wilson chose Cherry-Garrard to accompany him...
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Richards and Wild finally managed to reach Cape Evans in June. After Aurora finally returned to Cape Evans in January 1917, there were further searches...
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Spencer-Smith set up a chapel in Ponting's darkroom in Scott's Hut at Cape Evans. He arranged an altar with cross and candlesticks and an aumbry where...
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(1) The National Antarctic Expedition's hut at Hut Point; (2) Cape Royds Hut; (3) Cape Evans Hut; (4) Depots south of Hut Point. Endurance: Shackleton's...
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Nova was trapped for three weeks by pack ice, and finally arrived at Cape Evans in McMurdo Sound in early January 1911. A base camp hut was built and...
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they man-hauled their sledge 60 miles (100 km) from Scott's base at Cape Evans to the far side of Ross Island. The party had two sledges, but the poor...
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The Cape Colony (Dutch: Kaapkolonie), also known as the Cape of Good Hope, was a British colony in present-day South Africa named after the Cape of Good...
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and the southernmost active volcano on Earth. Erebus Bay lies between Cape Evans and Hut Point Peninsula, on the west side of Ross Island. Erebus and Terror...
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whaler registered as a steam yacht, had brought the Ross Sea party to Cape Evans in McMurdo Sound in January 1915, to establish its base there in support...
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to McMurdo Sound for his base, though to a more northerly anchorage (Cape Evans). Wilson was keen to continue researching the emperor penguin embryo,...
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Institute re-discovered the fact that Scott had left written orders at Cape Evans to secure Scott's speedy return from the pole using dogs. This order was...
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Park Base was a non-governmental year-round Antarctic base located at Cape Evans on Ross Island in the Ross Dependency. The international environmental...
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projected route to the South Pole. Returning from the depot to base camp at Cape Evans, Crean, accompanied by Apsley Cherry-Garrard and Henry "Birdie" Bowers...
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Ponting helped set up the Terra Nova Expedition's Antarctic winter camp at Cape Evans, Ross Island. The camp included a tiny photographic darkroom. Although...
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side of Ross Island on 4 January 1911, at a site Scott named Cape Evans in Evans' honour. Evans joined the main shore party, leaving the Terra Nova in the...
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Erebus and terminates on the west side of Ross Island between Cape Barne and Cape Evans where it forms a steep ice cliff. Discovered by the BrNAE, 1901–04...
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Cape Royds (77°33′S 166°09′E / 77.550°S 166.150°E / -77.550; 166.150 (Cape Royds)) is a dark rock cape forming the western extremity of Ross Island...
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were stranded not far away from Cape Evans. There was sea ice between them and the relative safety of the hut on Cape Evans. On 8 May two of the men, Aeneas...
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