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Thread #170822   Message #4131637
Posted By: GUEST,henryp
09-Jan-22 - 03:57 AM
Thread Name: violin from Shackleton's floorboards
Subject: RE: violin from Shackleton's floorboards
Two songs from Rude Awakening by Andy Irvine;

Rude Awakening

In the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914-17, Shackleton famously led all his own party to safety, but Victor Hayward and Aenas McIntosh, two members of the Ross Sea party, lost their lives crossing the sea-ice from Hut Point to Cape Evans.

Douglas Mawson

Douglas Mawson had been a member of Shackleton's Nimrod expedition in 1907/08 and was drawn back to the Antarctic in 1911 at the head of his own expedition. His epic and tragic Antarctic journey has been referred to as probably the greatest story of lone survival in Polar exploration.