1. The Antarctic Continent
... . He left England in 1907 in a reconditioned sealer ship Nimrod with a contingent of scientists & sailors from the UK, New Zealand and Australia. He along with Frank Wild, Erik Marshall and Jamson Adams after spending a winter in a wooden hut at McMurdo Sound set off on the journey to the South Pole or October 29, 1908, with sledges towed by four Manchurian ponies ... ...
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