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Author of With Scott in the Antarctic: Edward Wilson (Explorer, Naturalist, Artist); Captain Scott's Invaluable Assistant: Edgar Evans; and My Life on Shelter Island. Isobel Williams Author, Cruise Speaker and Lecturer. Bruce, South Orkneys and the Argentine. On the Scotia expedition of 1902-04, Bruce made a Base in the South Orkneys. From here he led a disciplined scientific programme, which included a considerable emphasis on meteorology and magnetology. Tags: 'Scotia' expedition. South Orkneys. On Bru...
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EXHIBITION OF TERRA NOVA PHOTOGRAPHS IN SCOTT POLAR INSTITUTE | Isobel Williams – Author, Cruise Speaker and Lecturer
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Author of With Scott in the Antarctic: Edward Wilson (Explorer, Naturalist, Artist); Captain Scott's Invaluable Assistant: Edgar Evans; and My Life on Shelter Island. Isobel Williams Author, Cruise Speaker and Lecturer. EXHIBITION OF TERRA NOVA PHOTOGRAPHS IN SCOTT POLAR INSTITUTE. This is an evocative group of images chosen from the thousands held in the SPRI collection relating to the 1910-14 British Antarctic Expedition to the South Pole. Scott used a camera from A.E. Stacey and Co for his ima...Click...
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Polar adventurer: Worst Journey in the World
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Tuesday, 5 July 2011. Worst Journey in the World. McMurdo, Ross Island, Antarctica (Mount Erebus in the distance). Flickr Creative Commons, ©. This evening I shall join a virtual journey to Ross Island. At the Scott Polar Research Institute. In Cambridge, following in the footsteps of Edward Wilson. And Robert Falcon Scott. On the Terra Nova expedition. This is just one of numerous events. This includes their Freeze Frame. Project, which includes photographs from the original Terra Nova. AIIT launches ne...
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Ali Walks With Scott: June 2011
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Ali Walks With Scott. ISCE 2012 Candidate - Aspiring Explorer and Adventure Enthusiast. Wednesday, 29 June 2011. Serena Williams's outburst at the US Open, 2009. (Picture credit: EPA). Research into ‘failure tolerance’ or how responses to failure affect future behaviour has been done in economics (. A bit of cod psychology might suggest that this maps on to Scott’s and Amundsen’s divergent expedition approaches. Scott’s Terra Nova. Expedition was, in fact, his second chance, as his Discovery. Amundsen, m...
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The Falklands | Isobel Williams – Author, Cruise Speaker and Lecturer
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Author of With Scott in the Antarctic: Edward Wilson (Explorer, Naturalist, Artist); Captain Scott's Invaluable Assistant: Edgar Evans; and My Life on Shelter Island. Isobel Williams Author, Cruise Speaker and Lecturer. I recently attended a presentation about the Falkland Islands. I found it useful and felt a blog might be helpful to others. The island remains well defended and in a state of alert, a situation well appreciated by the islanders: low flying jets represent the ‘sound of freedom’. The i...
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Ancient Sperm | Isobel Williams – Author, Cruise Speaker and Lecturer
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Author of With Scott in the Antarctic: Edward Wilson (Explorer, Naturalist, Artist); Captain Scott's Invaluable Assistant: Edgar Evans; and My Life on Shelter Island. Isobel Williams Author, Cruise Speaker and Lecturer. Did you know that fossilised sperm found in a worm cocoon from Antarctica has been found to be 50,000,000 years old? The scientists hope that when they examine other fossil cocoons from different parts of the world they may find more trapped sperm or other micro-organisms. You are comment...
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history on the Discover the World Blog
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From One Pole To Another: The Difference Between An Arctic and Antarctic Voyage. Both are ‘chilly’, blessed with twenty-four hour daylight in the summers and are home to an array of beguiling and unusual wildlife. Yet the differences between the Arctic. Are striking. They each offer a unique beauty found nowhere else on earth but offer almost completely different experiences. If you’re not sure which direction to head to this year then take a read of our guide to the Poles. Or in the Canadian Arctic.
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Polar adventurer: July 2011
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Tuesday, 5 July 2011. Worst Journey in the World. McMurdo, Ross Island, Antarctica (Mount Erebus in the distance). Flickr Creative Commons, ©. This evening I shall join a virtual journey to Ross Island. At the Scott Polar Research Institute. In Cambridge, following in the footsteps of Edward Wilson. And Robert Falcon Scott. On the Terra Nova expedition. This is just one of numerous events. This includes their Freeze Frame. Project, which includes photographs from the original Terra Nova. AIIT launches ne...
