101. BBC - History - Different Approaches To Antarctic Exploration What was the secret of Amundsen s success at the South Pole? As Sian Flynn explains, the devil s in the detail. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/discovery/exploration/south_approaches_03.shtml

@import url('/includes/tbenh.css') ; Home TV Radio Talk ... A-Z Index SUNDAY 18th September 2005 Text only BBC Homepage History Homepage Topics Ancient Exploration Medicine Revolutions in Science Resources Interactive Content Reading Room Timelines Historic Figures ... History for Kids Practical History Archaeology Family History History Trails Community Messageboard Newsletter About This Site About the BBC ... Help Like this page? Send it to a friend! Different Approaches to Antarctic Exploration By Sian Flynn Page 3 of 6 1. Different agendas 2. Camp conflicts 3. The devil's in the detail 4. Nutrition ... Print entire article The devil's in the detail One of the small details that later appeared to have contributed to the demise of Scott's team was the use of leather washers for his expedition's fuel cans. On his return from the Pole, having learned that Amundsen had got there before him, Scott noted in his diary that when his men opened the cans some of the fuel had apparently evaporated. This was caused by the deterioration of the washers used to seal the cans in the extreme temperatures, allowing the fuel to 'creep'. Amundsen knew of this 'creeping' in low temperatures, and one of his team devised bungs that hermetically sealed the cans, to prevent any loss of the life-giving fuel. By the time, later in their voyage, that Scott, Wilson and Bowers were confined to their tent, they had run out of fuel, which was of course needed for turning ice into water for drinking. Dehydration is as much a problem in Antarctica as starvation.

102. BBC - History - Different Approaches To Antarctic Exploration What was the secret of Amundsen s success at the South Pole? As Sian Flynn explains, the devil s in the detail. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/discovery/exploration/south_approaches_06.shtml

@import url('/includes/tbenh.css') ; Home TV Radio Talk ... A-Z Index SUNDAY 18th September 2005 Text only BBC Homepage History Homepage Topics Ancient Exploration Medicine Revolutions in Science Resources Interactive Content Reading Room Timelines Historic Figures ... History for Kids Practical History Archaeology Family History History Trails Community Messageboard Newsletter About This Site About the BBC ... Help Like this page? Send it to a friend! Different Approaches to Antarctic Exploration By Sian Flynn Page 6 of 6 1. Different agendas 2. Camp conflicts 3. The devil's in the detail 4. Nutrition ... Print entire article Find out more Books South: The race to the Pole by Pieter van der Merwe (Greenhill, 2000) A First-rate Tragedy by Diana Preston (Mariner, 1999) The South Pole Pinnacle of Antarctica by John E Rugg (1st Books, 2001) About the author Sian Flynn curated the South: the race to the Pole exhibition (September 2000 to January 2002) at the National Maritime Museum, London, bringing together nearly 200 objects relating to Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen, as well as contributing to the accompanying book. Previous Published: 01-07-2002 Articles Race to the Pole Multimedia Zone Shackleton - A Voyage of Endurance Historic Figures Ernest Shackleton BBCi Links BBC News - Science battles for Scott's reputation External Web Links National Maritime Museum The Scott Polar Research Institute The British Antarctic Survey The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites.

103. UCLA Library Department Of Special Collections Exhibits After Shackleton, Antarctic exploration and science became increasingly largescaled and mechanized. Captain James Cook in the Resolution and Adventure http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/rosove.htm

UCLA Library Department of Special Collections Exhibits / April 2002 Introduction Antarctic Exploration, 1772 - 1922 Captain James Cook in the Resolution and Adventure James Clark Ross in the Erebus and Terror Ernest Shackleton and the British Antarctic Expedition (1907 - 1909) Ernest H. Shackleton and the Imperial Transantarctic Expedition (1914 - 1917) Introduction Michael H. Rosove, Clinical Professor of Medicine in UCLA’s Department of Medicine, has had an interest in Antarctica for more than twenty years and has made several trips to high south latitudes. In addition to his comprehensive Antarctica bibliography, he is the author of Let Heroes Speak: Antarctic Explorers, 1772 - 1922 , published by the Naval Institute Press in 2000 and scheduled for paperback release by Penguin Putnam. Dr. Rosove’s bibliography, which brings together published materials covering 150 years of Antarctic history, includes rare and virtually unknown works from the continent’s classical and heroic periods of exploration. This publication is the result of ten years of research in private collections and in the world’s most important libraries for Antarctic research, including UCLA Special Collections. The core of the Antarctica holdings at UCLA is the Mary Joe Goodwin Antarctica Collection. The collection was compiled by Goodwin, a prolific and award-winning medical illustrator, who was a member of the first public expedition to Antarctica in the mid-1960s and returned twice thereafter. The collection contains books and serials, Goodwin’s research materials and writings, correspondence, catalogues, slides, scrapbooks, films, and memorabilia. Important expeditions to the continent, mapmaking, geology, and natural history are a few of the potential areas of study for researchers using this collection. Many of the Goodwin materials also complement the Department’s Sir Maurice G. Holmes Collection relating to Captain James Cook. A small selection of UCLA’s Antarctica materials is on display in honor of Dr. Rosove’s new bibliography and his lecture in the Department of Special Collections on April 22, 2002.

104. Secrets Of The Ice From The Museum Of Science, Boston Follow the progress of a fouryear Antarctic expedition of scientists based at the University of New Hampshire. Learn about the climate and environment, http://www.secretsoftheice.org/

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105. Arctic: [Let Heroes Speak: Antarctic Explorers, 1772-1922] Full text of the article, Let heroes speak Antarctic explorers, 17721922 from Arctic, a publication in the field of Reference Education, http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3712/is_200109/ai_n8981995

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106. Antarctic Expedition Cruises :: Visit Celebrated Sites From The Golden Age Of Ex Follow in the wake of the Great Antarctic Explorers, Scott and Shackleton. Visit research stations and historic sites of past Polar expeditions. http://www.pole-to-pole.co.uk/voyage12/itinerary.asp?duration=26

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