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    Alistair Forbes Mackay (22 February 1878 – c. February 1914) was a Scottish physician, biologist, and polar explorer known for being the first, along with...
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    Alistair Mackay (born 1984) is a South African novelist, short story writer and columnist. His debut novel It Doesn't Have To Be This Way was chosen by...
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    Expedition, 1907–09, and named for Alistair Mackay, a member of the party. The glacier's tongue is called Mackay Glacier Tongue. First mapped by the...
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  • Magnetic Pole January 16, 1909 Douglas Mawson, Edgeworth David, and Alistair Mackay The North Pole April 6, 1909 Robert Peary The South Pole December 14...
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    South Magnetic Pole, attained by Edgeworth David, Douglas Mawson and Alistair Mackay on 16 January 1909. Shackleton returned to the United Kingdom as a...
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  • Percy Lemon Godske Lindenov Martin Lindsay Fyodor Litke Ivan Lyakhov Alistair Mackay Alexander MacKenzie Aeneas Mackintosh Cecil Madigan Rune Malterud Stepan...
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  • by South African author Alistair Mackay. It was first published in South Africa by Kwela Books in February 2022. It is Mackay's debut novel set in a post-apocalyptic...
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    On 16 January 1909 three men (Douglas Mawson, Edgeworth David, and Alistair Mackay) from Sir Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition claimed to have found...
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    and crew member of the Japanese Antarctic Expedition of 1910–12. Dr. Alistair Mackay, the assistant surgeon on the British Antarctic Expedition of 1907–1909...
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    volcano in Antarctica. David led the summit party consisting of Mawson, Alistair Mackay and himself, and there was a supporting party of three which it was...
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    monoxide poisoning, before they could be rescued. Four others, including Alistair Mackay who had been part of the Nimrod Expedition (British Antarctic Expedition...
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    Clan Mackay whose early chiefs are all titled "of Strathnaver" from Iye MacAiodh 1st of Strathnaver (b. about 1210) to at least Sir Donald Mackay who was...
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    Eclipse our sins, by Tlotlo Tsamaase; It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way, by Alistair Mackay and Noor, by Nnedi Okorafor, have been highlighted as remarkable publications...
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    sport, paddling and sailing them in both Europe and the Middle East Alistair Mackay (1878–1914), doctor and polar explorer, one of the first expedition...
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    by A. E. Harbord. Others in the shore party were the two surgeons, Alistair Mackay and Eric Marshall, Bernard Day the motor expert, and Sir Philip Brocklehurst...
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    stayed an extra year. In doing so they became, in the company of Alistair Mackay, the first to climb the summit of Mount Erebus and to trek to the South...
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    sponsor an around-the-world airplane race. Canadian Arctic Expedition – Alistair Mackay, the expedition's medical doctor, along with three other members of...
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    (unclimbed until then). The party of Edgeworth David, Douglas Mawson, Alistair Mackay, Eric Marshall, Brocklehurst and Jameson Adams started on 5 March....
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  • Air Chief Marshal Sir Alasdair McKay Sinclair Steedman, GCB, CBE, DFC, FRAeS (29 January 1922 – 2 January 1992) was a senior commander in the Royal Air...
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  • RB Ralph Collins LB Jim Stewart RH Rab Stewart CH Willie Toner LH Alistair Mackay RW Gerry Mays IR Willie Harvey CF David Curlett IL Bertie Black LW...
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    1907–09 British Antarctic Expedition. Along with Edgeworth David and Alistair Mackay, he had been part of a man-hauled sledging expedition, the first to...
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  • M-Net Prize for English Fiction 2010 It Doesn't Have to Be This Way by Alistair Mackay, 2022 - longlisted for the 2022 British Science Fiction Association...
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  • Alexander Andrew Mackay Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg, PC, KC (born 23 June 1940), known as Derry Irvine, is a Scottish lawyer and politician who served...
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  • 50.35 −3.36 Conservative Ronald Buxton 15,714 33.47 −12.82 Liberal Alistair Mackay 7,598 16.18 New Majority 7,926 16.88 +9.46 Turnout 46,592 70.18 −4...
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    Buckley (left) with Jameson Adams and Alistair Mackay in the rigging of the Nimrod; Koonya in the background...
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    in 2003 by Pope John Paul II. Edgeworth David, Douglas Mawson and Alistair Mackay became the first persons to reach the South Magnetic Pole—or rather...
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  • Glasgow Health Board. Donald Colin Mackay, Head Teacher, Craigmuir Primary School, Edinburgh. Douglas Alistair Mackay, lately Professional and Technology...
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  • and called it "a record [Harvey] was born to make", while Uncut's Alistair MacKay noted it as "a singular thing". NME's Elizabeth Aubrey described the...
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  • Washington. Edward Noel Larmour, British Deputy High Commissioner, Lagos. Alistair Mackay, Financial Adviser, British High Commission, New Delhi. Archibald Campbell...
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  • Ernest Edward Withers, Site Manager, Walter Llewellyn & Sons Ltd. Alistair Mackay Wood, Chairman, Voluntary Committee for Wales, International Year of...
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