A First Rate Tragedy (45 page)
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Authors: Diana Preston
Films
90° South
(Ponting’s Documentary of
Terra Nova
Expedition) Great Britain, 1933, Academy Video (British Film Institute)
Scott of the Antarctic
(Feature film, Ealing Studios) Great Britain, 1948
Index
Academie Colarossi,
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Active
,
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Adams,
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Adare, Viscount,
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Adélie penguins,
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,
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,
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,
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Admirality,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Admirality range,
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airships,
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American Geographical Society,
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Amethyst
,
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Amundsen, Roald
winters in Antarctica with Belgian expedition,
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secretly intends to head for South Pole,
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sends telegram to Scott,
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meets Campbell at Bay of Whales,
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Scott’s attitude to,
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reliance on dogs,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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argues with Johansen,
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,
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reaches Pole,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Scott’s team discovers victory of,
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,
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return from Pole,
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,
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,
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,
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British reaction to victory of,
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,
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Kathleen Scott’s reaction to victory of,
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factors advantageous to,
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Scott affected by expedition of,
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reaction to Scott’s death,
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subsequent career,
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death,
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mentioned,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Antarctic exploration, history of,
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Aorangi
,
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Arctic,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Aristotle,
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Armitage, Albert,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Ashdown,
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Asquith, Prime Minister,
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Atkinson, Dr
chosen for expedition,
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on journey to Antarctica,
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,
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in depot-laying party,
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,
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in party heading south,
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,
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,
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,
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in first returning party,
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,
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and Scott’s instructions about dogs,
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,
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,
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at Hut Point,
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unable to take dog teams with supplies,
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anxious about Polar party,
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takes command,
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decides to seek Polar party,
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discovers bodies,
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subsequent career and death,
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mentioned,
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,
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Augustine, St,
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Australia,
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,
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,
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see also
Melbourne
Baden-Powell, Robert,
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Balfour, Arthur James,
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,
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,
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Balleny, John,
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Balmoral,
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Barker, Captain Wilson,
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Barne, Michael,
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,
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Barrie, J.M.,
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,
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Barrier
see
Great Ice Barrier,
Barrier Inlet,
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Bass brewers,
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Bay of Whales,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
Beardmore, William,
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Beardmore Glacier
ascent of Scott’s party,
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,
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ascent by Shackleton,
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descent by last supporting party,
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descent by Polar party,
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mentioned,
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,
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,
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,
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Beaumont, Admiral Sir Lewis,
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Bellingshausen, Captain Baron Thaddeus von,
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Bellingshausen Sea,
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Bernacchi, Louis,
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,
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Bird’s,
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Birmingham Post, The
,
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Biscoe, John,
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Bluff Depot,
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Boadicea
,
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Boer War,
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,
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,
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,
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Bonner, Charles,
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Borchgrevinck, Carsten,
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,
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Botha, Louis,
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Bovril,
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Bowers, Henry (‘Birdie’)
early life and career,
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offered place on Antarctic expedition
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on journey to Antarctica,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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in depot-laying party,
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,
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,
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expedition to Cape Crozier,
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,
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,
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,
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and plans for assault to Pole,
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in party heading south,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Scott’s opinion of,
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,
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,
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chosen for Polar party,
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,
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continues to Pole,
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,
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,
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return journey,
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,
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,
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,
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view on suicide,
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body discovered,
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,
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,
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loyalty to Scott,
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mentioned,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Bransfield, Edward,
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Britannia
,
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British and Colonial Aeroplane Company,
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British Antarctic Survey,
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,
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Broke
,
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Bruce, Sir James,
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Bruce, Kathleen
see
Scott, Kathleen (née Bruce)
Bruce, Reverend Lloyd Stewart,
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Bruce, Rosslyn,
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,
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,
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,
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Bruce, Wilfred,
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,
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Bruton Gallaries,
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Buckingham Palace Road,
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,
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,
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Bulwark
,
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Burlington House,
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Cadbury’s,
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Cambrian
,
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Cambridge University
Gonville and Caius College,
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Scott Polar Research Institute,
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Cape Evans,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Cheltenham,
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Cheltenham, College,
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Campbell, Victor,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Cannan, Gilbert,
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Canning, Hannah
see
Scott, Hannah, (née Canning)
Cape Adare,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Cape Crozier,
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,
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Cape Horn,
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Carola, Marie,
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Central News Agency,
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Channel Squadron,
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,
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,
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Charcot, Jean-Baptiste,
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Charez, Georges,
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Chase, Pauline,
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Cherry-Garrard, Apsley
chosen for expedition,
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on journey to Antarctica,
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,
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,
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,
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in depot-laying party,
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,
ref2
,
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,
ref4
expedition to Cape Crozier,
ref1
in party heading south,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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in first returning party,
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,
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takes supplies to One Ton Depot,
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,
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view on suicide,
ref1
anxious about Polar party,
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and decision to seek Polar party,
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